inis.run vs Upstash Box
Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. inis.run runs full VMs and has no session limit. Upstash Box runs containers.
Updated
inis.run
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Max session
- No limit
Upstash Box
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
inis.run
Upstash Box
- Storage
- inis.run: Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Billing
- inis.run: Bundled machine time
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- inis.run: Up to 10
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- inis.run: Full VM
- Upstash Box: Container
- Integrations
- inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- inis.run: Not listed
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- inis.run: Included
- Upstash Box: Included
- Storage
- inis.run: Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Paid plan from
- inis.run: Pay as you go
- Upstash Box: Pay as you go
- Billing
- inis.run: Bundled machine time
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- inis.run: No limit
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Idle stop
- inis.run: Not listed
- Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- inis.run: Up to 10
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- inis.run: Full VM
- Upstash Box: Container
- GPU
- inis.run: No
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Snapshots
- inis.run:
- Upstash Box:
- Pause and resume
- inis.run:
- Upstash Box:
Developer
- SDKs
- inis.run: Python, TypeScript
- Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Trust
- License
- inis.run: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- BYOC
- inis.run: In your cloud account, by quote
- Upstash Box: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
inis.run
Upstash Box
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- Upstash Box: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- Upstash Box: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- Upstash Box: $0.400
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 OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Upstash Box 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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