Islo Sandboxes vs MIOSA

Islo Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. Islo Sandboxes runs microVMs. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Islo Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Starting credit, no card required
Max session
Not listed

MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Islo Sandboxes
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $500 / month
Isolation
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Islo Sandboxes: Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
Islo Sandboxes: Per second
MIOSA: Per second

Limits

Max session
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: Up to 250

Platform

Isolation
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
Snapshots
Islo Sandboxes:
MIOSA:
Pause and resume
Islo Sandboxes:
MIOSA:

Developer

SDKs
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Islo Sandboxes: Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Trust

License
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
Islo Sandboxes: Agent computers run in your VPC.
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Islo Sandboxes
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Islo Sandboxes: $0.150
MIOSA: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Islo Sandboxes: $0.300
MIOSA: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Islo Sandboxes: $0.600
MIOSA: $0.298

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Islo Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use Claude Code.

MIOSA fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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