EQVPS Sandboxes vs exe.dev

EQVPS Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. EQVPS Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 720 hours. exe.dev runs full VMs.

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EQVPS Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$1 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
720 hours

exe.dev

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session
Not listed

What is different

9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

EQVPS Sandboxes
exe.dev
vCPU, per hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
exe.dev: Included
Storage
EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
exe.dev: Full VM
Integrations
EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
exe.dev: Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
exe.dev: Included
Storage
EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second
exe.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
exe.dev: Not listed
Idle stop
EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
exe.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20
exe.dev: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
exe.dev: Full VM
GPU
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Snapshots
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Pause and resume
EQVPS Sandboxes:
exe.dev: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
exe.dev: Not listed
Integrations
EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
exe.dev: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
BYOC
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
exe.dev: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

EQVPS Sandboxes
exe.dev
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.066
exe.dev: $0.053
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.132
exe.dev: $0.105
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.264
exe.dev: $0.210

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

EQVPS Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need pause and resume.

exe.dev fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.105 against $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.

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