ix vs microsandbox cloud

ix costs $0.0288 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. ix runs full VMs. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.

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ix

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

microsandbox cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

ix
microsandbox cloud
vCPU, per hour
ix: $0.0288
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
ix: $0.0108
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
ix: $0.101 per GiB-month stored
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
ix: Pay as you go
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
ix: Active CPU time only
microsandbox cloud: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
ix: Up to 100
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Isolation
ix: Full VM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
SDKs
ix: Python, TypeScript, Rust
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
ix: $0.0288
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
ix: $0.0108
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
ix: $0.101 per GiB-month stored
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
ix: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
ix: Pay as you go
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
ix: Active CPU time only
microsandbox cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
ix: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
ix: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
ix: 100 vCPU · 256 GiB
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
ix: Up to 100
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000

Platform

Isolation
ix: Full VM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU
ix: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: No
Snapshots
ix:
microsandbox cloud:
Pause and resume
ix: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: No

Developer

SDKs
ix: Python, TypeScript, Rust
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations
ix: MCP
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
ix: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
ix: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

ix
microsandbox cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
ix: $0.050
microsandbox cloud: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
ix: $0.101
microsandbox cloud: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
ix: $0.202
microsandbox cloud: $0.330

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

ix fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.101 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

microsandbox cloud fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.

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