inis.run vs Runtime

Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. inis.run runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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inis.run

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

Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

inis.run
Runtime
RAM, per GiB-hour
inis.run: Included
Runtime: $0.0075
Storage
inis.run: Paused sessions and persistent volumes cost about €0.07 per GB per month. Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute.
Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Billing
inis.run: Bundled machine time
Runtime: Active CPU time only
Max session
inis.run: 24 hours
Runtime: No limit
Largest sandbox
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
inis.run: Up to 10
Runtime: Up to 200
Isolation
inis.run: Full VM
Runtime: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
inis.run: Not listed
Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
inis.run: Included
Runtime: $0.0075
Storage
inis.run: Paused sessions and persistent volumes cost about €0.07 per GB per month. Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute.
Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Paid plan from
inis.run: Pay as you go
Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
inis.run: Bundled machine time
Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
inis.run: 24 hours
Runtime: No limit
Idle stop
inis.run: Not listed
Runtime: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
inis.run: Up to 10
Runtime: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
inis.run: Full VM
Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
inis.run: No
Runtime: No
Snapshots
inis.run:
Runtime:
Pause and resume
inis.run:
Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
inis.run: Not listed
Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
inis.run: In your own cloud account, from €30,000/year
Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

inis.run
Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
Runtime: $0.040
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
Runtime: $0.080
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
Runtime: $0.160

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Runtime fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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