EQVPS Sandboxes vs MIOSA

EQVPS Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.0496 per vCPU-hour. EQVPS Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 720 hours. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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EQVPS Sandboxes

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

MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$1 of usage every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

EQVPS Sandboxes
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
MIOSA: $0.0496
RAM, per GiB-hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
MIOSA: Included
Storage
EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
MIOSA: Disk $0.10 per GiB a month while the machine runs. Paused disk and named snapshots $0.02 per GiB a month
Free tier
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
MIOSA: $1 of usage every month
Paid plan from
EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $20 / month
Billing
EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second
MIOSA: Bundled machine time
Max session
EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20
MIOSA: Up to 100
SDKs
EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
MIOSA: $0.0496
RAM, per GiB-hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
MIOSA: Included
Storage
EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
MIOSA: Disk $0.10 per GiB a month while the machine runs. Paused disk and named snapshots $0.02 per GiB a month
Free tier
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
MIOSA: $1 of usage every month
Paid plan from
EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $20 / month
Billing
EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second
MIOSA: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20
MIOSA: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
GPU
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: No
Snapshots
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA:
Pause and resume
EQVPS Sandboxes:
MIOSA:

Developer

SDKs
EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: Your own AWS or Google Cloud account, or your own servers through OpenComputers

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

EQVPS Sandboxes
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.066
MIOSA: $0.050
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.132
MIOSA: $0.099
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.264
MIOSA: $0.198

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

EQVPS Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.

MIOSA fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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