HopX vs Solari

HopX costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. HopX runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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HopX

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$200 credit
Max session
No limit

Solari

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

What is different

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

HopX
Solari
vCPU, per hour
HopX: $0.0504
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
HopX: $0.0162
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
HopX: $200 credit
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
HopX: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Max session
HopX: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Isolation
HopX: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
HopX: Python, JavaScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
HopX: MCP
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
HopX: $0.0504
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
HopX: $0.0162
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
HopX: $200 credit
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
HopX: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
HopX: Per second
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
HopX: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
HopX: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
HopX: Not listed
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
HopX: Not listed
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
HopX: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
HopX: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
HopX:
Solari:
Pause and resume
HopX:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
HopX: Python, JavaScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
HopX: MCP
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

HopX
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
HopX: $0.083
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
HopX: $0.166
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
HopX: $0.331
Solari: $0.342

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

HopX fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.171 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want the larger free credit: $200 against $3.

Solari fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need HIPAA.

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