EQVPS Sandboxes vs Runtime

EQVPS Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. EQVPS Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 720 hours. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

EQVPS Sandboxes

Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents, paid per second from a prepaid crypto balance.

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

Visit site EQVPS Sandboxes profile

Runtime

Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents, billed on the CPU that code uses.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Max session: No limit

Visit site Runtime profile

What is different

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vCPU, per hour: EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04; Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour: EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013; Runtime: $0.0075
Storage: EQVPS Sandboxes: Free; Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier: EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time; Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Billing: EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second; Runtime: Active CPU time only
Max session: EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours; Runtime: No limit
Largest sandbox: EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB; Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20; Runtime: Up to 200
SDKs: EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations: EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code; Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04; Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour: EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013; Runtime: $0.0075
Storage: EQVPS Sandboxes: Free; Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier: EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time; Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Paid plan from: EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go; Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing: EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second; Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session: EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours; Runtime: No limit
Idle stop: EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes; Runtime: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox: EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB; Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20; Runtime: Up to 200

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations: EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code; Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed; Runtime: Not listed
BYOC: EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed; Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

EQVPS Sandboxes

Runtime

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.066; Runtime: $0.040
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.132; Runtime: $0.080
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.264; Runtime: $0.160

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Which one fits

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Runtime fits when

A session must run longer than 720 hours.
You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or LangChain.
You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need snapshots.

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