inis.run vs Smol Machines
Smol Machines costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. inis.run runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Smol Machines runs microVMs.
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inis.run
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Max session
- 24 hours
Smol Machines
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
inis.run
Smol Machines
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- inis.run: Included
- Smol Machines: $0.0162
- Storage
- inis.run: Paused sessions and persistent volumes cost about €0.07 per GB per month. Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute.
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Billing
- inis.run: Bundled machine time
- Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- inis.run: Up to 10
- Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- inis.run: Full VM
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- Snapshots
- inis.run:
- Smol Machines: No
- SDKs
- inis.run: Python, TypeScript
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- inis.run: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- inis.run: Included
- Smol Machines: $0.0162
- Storage
- inis.run: Paused sessions and persistent volumes cost about €0.07 per GB per month. Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute.
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- inis.run: Pay as you go
- Smol Machines: Pay as you go
- Billing
- inis.run: Bundled machine time
- Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- inis.run: 24 hours
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Idle stop
- inis.run: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- inis.run: Up to 10
- Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- inis.run: Full VM
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- GPU
- inis.run: No
- Smol Machines: No
- Snapshots
- inis.run:
- Smol Machines: No
- Pause and resume
- inis.run:
- Smol Machines:
Developer
- SDKs
- inis.run: Python, TypeScript
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
- Integrations
- inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Smol Machines: Not listed
Trust
- License
- inis.run: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- inis.run: In your own cloud account, from €30,000/year
- Smol Machines: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
inis.run
Smol Machines
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.082
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.165
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.330
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You need snapshots.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Smol Machines fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- 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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