DigitalOcean MicroVMs vs Leap0
DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour and Leap0 costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs. Leap0 runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours.
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DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Leap0
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free during public preview
- Max session
- 8 hours
What is different
3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Leap0
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- Leap0: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Leap0: $0.0162
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Leap0: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
Leap0leap0
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- Leap0: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Leap0: $0.0162
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Leap0: Not listed
- Free tier
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Leap0: Free during public preview
- Paid plan from
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Leap0: Not listed
- Billing
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Leap0: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Leap0: 8 hours
- Idle stop
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Leap0: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Leap0: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Leap0: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Leap0: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Leap0: Not listed
- Snapshots
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Leap0:
- Pause and resume
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Leap0:
Developer
- SDKs
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Leap0: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Leap0: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Leap0: Not listed
- BYOC
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Leap0: Via the sales team
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Leap0
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- Leap0: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- Leap0: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
- Leap0: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.078 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
Leap0 fits when
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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