Freestyle VMs vs tama

Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.

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Freestyle VMs

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

tama

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Freestyle VMs
tama
vCPU, per hour
Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
tama: $0.0055
Storage
Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Largest sandbox
Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
SDKs
Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
tama: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
tama: $0.0055
Storage
Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Free tier
Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
tama: Not listed
Paid plan from
Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
tama: Not listed
Billing
Freestyle VMs: Per second
tama: Per second

Limits

Max session
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Idle stop
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
tama: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Freestyle VMs: Full VM
tama: Full VM
GPU
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
tama:
Snapshots
Freestyle VMs:
tama:
Pause and resume
Freestyle VMs:
tama:

Developer

SDKs
Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
tama: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK
tama: Not listed

Trust

License
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
tama: Not listed
BYOC
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
tama: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Freestyle VMs
tama
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Freestyle VMs: $0.066
tama: $0.023
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Freestyle VMs: $0.132
tama: $0.045
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Freestyle VMs: $0.264
tama: $0.091

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Freestyle VMs fits when

  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.

tama fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.045 against $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 32 vCPU · 64 GiB.

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