DigitalOcean MicroVMs vs Unikraft Cloud

DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs. Unikraft Cloud runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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DigitalOcean MicroVMs

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Unikraft Cloud

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Hobby plan, free forever
Max session
Not listed

What is different

No published field differs between DigitalOcean MicroVMs and Unikraft Cloud.

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Storage
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Free tier
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Hobby plan, free forever
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: $39 / month
Billing
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Up to 24

Platform

Isolation
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
Unikraft Cloud: Firecracker microVM
GPU
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud:
Snapshots
DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
Unikraft Cloud:
Pause and resume
DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
Unikraft Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
BYOC
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Unikraft Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Unikraft Cloud fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.

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