inis.run vs LangSmith Sandboxes

LangSmith Sandboxes costs $0.0576 per vCPU-hour. inis.run runs full VMs and has no session limit. LangSmith Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.

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inis.run

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
€1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Max session
No limit

LangSmith Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Credit of 8 LSU every month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

inis.run
LangSmith Sandboxes
RAM, per GiB-hour
inis.run: Included
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
Storage
inis.run: Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
Free tier
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
Billing
inis.run: Bundled machine time
LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
inis.run: Full VM
LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Integrations
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
inis.run: Not listed
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
RAM, per GiB-hour
inis.run: Included
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
Storage
inis.run: Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
Free tier
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
Paid plan from
inis.run: Pay as you go
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
inis.run: Bundled machine time
LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
inis.run: No limit
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
inis.run: Not listed
LangSmith Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
inis.run: Up to 10
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
inis.run: Full VM
LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
inis.run: No
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
inis.run:
LangSmith Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
inis.run:
LangSmith Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain

Trust

License
inis.run: Not listed
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
inis.run: In your cloud account, by quote
LangSmith Sandboxes: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

inis.run
LangSmith Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.095
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.189
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.378

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

inis.run fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use the Vercel AI SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.

LangSmith Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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