DigitalOcean MicroVMs vs StateSet Sandbox
DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor and limits a session to 24 hours.
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DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
StateSet Sandbox
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- $25 trial credit, no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
StateSet Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Free tier
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Paid plan from
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- GPU
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- StateSet Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
StateSet Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.028
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 need SOC 2 and HIPAA.
StateSet Sandbox fits when
- You use Claude Code or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.078 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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