Fly.io Sprites vs MIOSA

Fly.io Sprites costs $0.0385 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. Fly.io Sprites runs Firecracker microVMs. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Fly.io Sprites

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$30 trial credit
Max session
Not listed

MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Fly.io Sprites
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
Fly.io Sprites: $0.0385
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Fly.io Sprites: $0.021875
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
Fly.io Sprites: $0.000683 per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Fly.io Sprites: $30 trial credit
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Fly.io Sprites: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
Fly.io Sprites: Active CPU time only
MIOSA: Per second
SDKs
Fly.io Sprites: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Fly.io Sprites: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Fly.io Sprites: $0.0385
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Fly.io Sprites: $0.021875
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
Fly.io Sprites: $0.000683 per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Fly.io Sprites: $30 trial credit
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Fly.io Sprites: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
Fly.io Sprites: Active CPU time only
MIOSA: Per second

Limits

Max session
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
MIOSA: Up to 250

Platform

Isolation
Fly.io Sprites: Firecracker microVM
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
Snapshots
Fly.io Sprites:
MIOSA:
Pause and resume
Fly.io Sprites:
MIOSA:

Developer

SDKs
Fly.io Sprites: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Fly.io Sprites: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Trust

License
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Fly.io Sprites
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Fly.io Sprites: $0.082
MIOSA: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Fly.io Sprites: $0.165
MIOSA: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Fly.io Sprites: $0.329
MIOSA: $0.298

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Fly.io Sprites fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or Claude Code.
  • You want the larger free credit: $30 against $10.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

MIOSA fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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