Freestyle VMs vs Solari

Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs and offers GPUs. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Freestyle VMs

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

Solari

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

What is different

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

Freestyle VMs
Solari
vCPU, per hour
Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Largest sandbox
Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
Solari: Up to 10
Isolation
Freestyle VMs: Full VM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Freestyle VMs: Per second
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Freestyle VMs: Full VM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
Freestyle VMs:
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
Freestyle VMs:
Solari:
Pause and resume
Freestyle VMs:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Freestyle VMs
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Freestyle VMs: $0.066
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Freestyle VMs: $0.132
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Freestyle VMs: $0.264
Solari: $0.342

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Freestyle VMs fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.132 against $0.171 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Solari fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need HIPAA.

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