DigitalOcean MicroVMs vs Sandbox0
DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.
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DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Sandbox0
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- Sandbox0: Included
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Sandbox0: $0.015
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Sandbox0: Free
- Billing
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Sandbox0: Memory only
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox0: gVisor
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
Sandbox0sandbox0
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- Sandbox0: Included
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Sandbox0: $0.015
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Sandbox0: Free
- Free tier
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Pay as you go
- Billing
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Sandbox0: Memory only
Limits
- Max session
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: No limit
- Idle stop
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox0: gVisor
- GPU
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Snapshots
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Sandbox0:
- Pause and resume
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Sandbox0:
Developer
- SDKs
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Sandbox0
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- Sandbox0: $0.030
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- Sandbox0: $0.060
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
- Sandbox0: $0.120
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.
Sandbox0 fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.078 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.
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