Freestyle VMs vs Phonebox
Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs and offers GPUs. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.
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Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- Not listed
Phonebox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Max session
- 3 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Freestyle VMs
Phonebox
- Free tier
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Paid plan from
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- Phonebox: Up to 5
- SDKs
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
- Phonebox: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Freestyle VMsfreestyle
Phoneboxphonebox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- Phonebox: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Storage
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Free tier
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Paid plan from
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Idle stop
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- Phonebox: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- Phonebox: Not listed
- GPU
- Freestyle VMs:
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Freestyle VMs:
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Freestyle VMs:
- Phonebox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
- Phonebox: MCP
Trust
- License
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Freestyle VMs
Phonebox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- Phonebox: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- Phonebox: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
- Phonebox: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Freestyle VMs fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Phonebox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use MCP.
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