DigitalOcean MicroVMs vs Tensorlake Sandboxes
DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
- Idle stop
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
Tensorlake Sandboxestensorlake
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400
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 $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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