DigitalOcean MicroVMs vs Freestyle VMs
DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs and offers GPUs.
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DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Freestyle VMs
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
Freestyle VMsfreestyle
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Billing
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
Platform
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- GPU
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs:
- Snapshots
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Freestyle VMs:
- Pause and resume
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Freestyle VMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Integrations
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Freestyle VMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.078 against $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Freestyle VMs fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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