inis.run vs Railway Sandboxes

Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. inis.run runs full VMs and has no session limit. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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inis.run

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

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

inis.run
Railway Sandboxes
RAM, per GiB-hour
inis.run: Included
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Free tier
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
inis.run: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
inis.run: Bundled machine time
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
inis.run: Up to 10
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
SDKs
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
inis.run: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
inis.run: Included
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
inis.run: Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
inis.run: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
inis.run: Bundled machine time
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
inis.run: No limit
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
inis.run: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
inis.run: Up to 10
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

inis.run
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

inis.run fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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