exe.dev vs microsandbox cloud

exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. exe.dev runs full VMs. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.

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exe.dev

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

microsandbox cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

exe.dev
microsandbox cloud
vCPU, per hour
exe.dev: $0.0525
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
exe.dev: Included
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
exe.dev: $15 / month
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
microsandbox cloud: Per second
Isolation
exe.dev: Full VM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
exe.dev: $0.0525
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
exe.dev: Included
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
exe.dev: $15 / month
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
microsandbox cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
exe.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
exe.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
exe.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000

Platform

Isolation
exe.dev: Full VM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU
exe.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: No
Snapshots
exe.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud:
Pause and resume
exe.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: No

Developer

SDKs
exe.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations
exe.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
exe.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
exe.dev: Enterprise plan
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

exe.dev
microsandbox cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
exe.dev: $0.053
microsandbox cloud: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
exe.dev: $0.105
microsandbox cloud: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
exe.dev: $0.210
microsandbox cloud: $0.330

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

exe.dev fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.105 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

microsandbox cloud fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need snapshots.

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