Fly.io Sprites vs Solari

Fly.io Sprites costs $0.0385 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Fly.io Sprites runs Firecracker microVMs. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor 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

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Fly.io Sprites
Solari
vCPU, per hour
Fly.io Sprites: $0.0385
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Fly.io Sprites: $0.021875
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Fly.io Sprites: $0.000683 per GiB-hour
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Fly.io Sprites: $30 trial credit
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Fly.io Sprites: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Fly.io Sprites: Active CPU time only
Solari: Per second
Isolation
Fly.io Sprites: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
Fly.io Sprites: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Fly.io Sprites: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Fly.io Sprites: $0.0385
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Fly.io Sprites: $0.021875
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Fly.io Sprites: $0.000683 per GiB-hour
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Fly.io Sprites: $30 trial credit
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Fly.io Sprites: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Fly.io Sprites: Active CPU time only
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Fly.io Sprites: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
Fly.io Sprites:
Solari:
Pause and resume
Fly.io Sprites:
Solari:

Developer

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

Trust

License
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Fly.io Sprites
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Fly.io Sprites: $0.082
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Fly.io Sprites: $0.165
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Fly.io Sprites: $0.329
Solari: $0.342

Compute only, at list rates.

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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.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.171 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want the larger free credit: $30 against $3.

Solari fits when

  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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