exe.dev vs Freestyle VMs

exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. exe.dev runs full VMs. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs.

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exe.dev

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

Freestyle VMs

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Free plan, $0 forever
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

exe.dev
Freestyle VMs
vCPU, per hour
exe.dev: $0.0525
Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
RAM, per GiB-hour
exe.dev: Included
Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Storage
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
Free tier
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
exe.dev: $15 / month
Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Billing
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Freestyle VMs: Per second

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
exe.dev: $0.0525
Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
RAM, per GiB-hour
exe.dev: Included
Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Storage
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
Free tier
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
exe.dev: $15 / month
Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Billing
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Freestyle VMs: Per second

Limits

Max session
exe.dev: Not listed
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Idle stop
exe.dev: Not listed
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Largest sandbox
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
exe.dev: Not listed
Freestyle VMs: Up to 400

Platform

Isolation
exe.dev: Full VM
Freestyle VMs: Full VM
GPU
exe.dev: Not listed
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Snapshots
exe.dev: Not listed
Freestyle VMs:
Pause and resume
exe.dev: Not listed
Freestyle VMs:

Developer

SDKs
exe.dev: Not listed
Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Integrations
exe.dev: Not listed
Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK

Trust

License
exe.dev: Not listed
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
BYOC
exe.dev: Enterprise plan
Freestyle VMs: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

exe.dev fits when

  • 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.

Freestyle VMs fits when

  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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