Hyperbrowser Sandboxes vs Smol Machines

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour and Smol Machines costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Hyperbrowser Sandboxes runs full VMs. Smol Machines runs microVMs.

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Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Max session
Not listed

Smol Machines

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
Smol Machines
vCPU, per hour
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
Smol Machines: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
Smol Machines: $0.0162
Free tier
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
Smol Machines: Pay as you go
Billing
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second
Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
Isolation
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Full VM
Smol Machines: MicroVM
Snapshots
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes:
Smol Machines: No
SDKs
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
Smol Machines: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
Smol Machines: $0.0162
Storage
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
Smol Machines: Pay as you go
Billing
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second
Smol Machines: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: Not listed
Idle stop
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Full VM
Smol Machines: MicroVM
GPU
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: No
Snapshots
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes:
Smol Machines: No
Pause and resume
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines:

Developer

SDKs
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
Integrations
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: Not listed

Trust

License
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
Smol Machines
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.075
Smol Machines: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.150
Smol Machines: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.300
Smol Machines: $0.330

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need SOC 2.

Smol Machines fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need pause and resume.

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