InstaVM vs Phonebox
InstaVM costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. InstaVM runs Firecracker microVMs. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.
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InstaVM
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
Phonebox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Max session
- 3 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
InstaVM
Phonebox
- Free tier
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Paid plan from
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- InstaVM: Per second
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
- Concurrent sandboxes
- InstaVM: Up to 100
- Phonebox: Up to 5
- SDKs
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Integrations
- InstaVM: Claude Code
- Phonebox: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Phoneboxphonebox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- Phonebox: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Storage
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Free tier
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Paid plan from
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- InstaVM: Per second
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Idle stop
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- InstaVM: Up to 100
- Phonebox: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- Phonebox: Not listed
- GPU
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- InstaVM:
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- InstaVM:
- Phonebox:
Developer
- SDKs
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Integrations
- InstaVM: Claude Code
- Phonebox: MCP
Trust
- License
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- BYOC
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
InstaVM
Phonebox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.083
- Phonebox: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.166
- Phonebox: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.331
- Phonebox: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
InstaVM fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the larger free credit: $50 against $2.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Phonebox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use MCP.
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