Freestyle VMs vs microsandbox cloud

Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.

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Freestyle VMs

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

microsandbox cloud

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

What is different

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

Freestyle VMs
microsandbox cloud
vCPU, per hour
Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Concurrent sandboxes
Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Isolation
Freestyle VMs: Full VM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
Pause and resume
Freestyle VMs:
microsandbox cloud: No
SDKs
Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
Freestyle VMs: Per second
microsandbox cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000

Platform

Isolation
Freestyle VMs: Full VM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: No
Snapshots
Freestyle VMs:
microsandbox cloud:
Pause and resume
Freestyle VMs:
microsandbox cloud: No

Developer

SDKs
Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations
Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Freestyle VMs
microsandbox cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Freestyle VMs: $0.066
microsandbox cloud: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Freestyle VMs: $0.132
microsandbox cloud: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Freestyle VMs: $0.264
microsandbox cloud: $0.330

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Freestyle VMs fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.132 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

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.

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