Isorun vs Railway Sandboxes

Isorun costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. Isorun runs microVMs. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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Isorun

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$50 credit
Max session
Not listed

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Isorun
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Isorun: $0.025
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Isorun: $0.015
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Free tier
Isorun: $50 credit
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
Isorun: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Isorun: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Isolation
Isorun: MicroVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Isorun: $0.025
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Isorun: $0.015
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
Isorun: Persistent disk $0.02 per GB-month for data stored
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Isorun: $50 credit
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
Isorun: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Isorun: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Isorun: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Isorun: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Isorun: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Isorun: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Isorun: MicroVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Isorun: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Isorun:
Railway Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Isorun:
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Isorun: TypeScript
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Isorun: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Isorun: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Isorun: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Isorun
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Isorun: $0.055
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Isorun: $0.110
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isorun: $0.220
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Isorun fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.110 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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