DigitalOcean MicroVMs vs microsandbox cloud
DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.
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DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
microsandbox cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
microsandbox cloud
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- Pause and resume
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- microsandbox cloud: No
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
microsandbox cloudmicrosandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Paid plan from
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Billing
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Idle stop
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Platform
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- GPU
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Snapshots
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- microsandbox cloud:
- Pause and resume
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- microsandbox cloud: No
Developer
- SDKs
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- Integrations
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: By evaluation, contact us
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
microsandbox cloud
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- microsandbox cloud: $0.082
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- microsandbox cloud: $0.165
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
- microsandbox cloud: $0.330
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 $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
microsandbox cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use Claude Code or MCP.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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