exe.dev vs Oblien Workspace

exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. exe.dev runs full VMs. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs.

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exe.dev

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

Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

exe.dev
Oblien Workspace
vCPU, per hour
exe.dev: $0.0525
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
exe.dev: Included
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
exe.dev: $15 / month
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
exe.dev: Full VM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
Integrations
exe.dev: Claude Code, MCP
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
exe.dev: $0.0525
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
exe.dev: Included
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
exe.dev: $15 / month
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
exe.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Idle stop
exe.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Largest sandbox
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
exe.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
exe.dev: Full VM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
GPU
exe.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: No
Snapshots
exe.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace:
Pause and resume
exe.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace:

Developer

SDKs
exe.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
exe.dev: Claude Code, MCP
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Trust

License
exe.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
BYOC
exe.dev: Enterprise plan
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

exe.dev
Oblien Workspace
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
exe.dev: $0.053
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
exe.dev: $0.105
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
exe.dev: $0.210
Oblien Workspace: $0.184

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 use Claude Code.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 12 vCPU · 64 GiB.

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.092 against $0.105 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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