Freestyle VMs vs Tensorlake Sandboxes
Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Freestyle VMs
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Paid plan from
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Freestyle VMsfreestyle
Tensorlake Sandboxestensorlake
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Freestyle VMs:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Freestyle VMs:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Freestyle VMs
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 64 GiB.
Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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