ix vs MIOSA

ix costs $0.0288 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. ix runs full VMs. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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ix

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

MIOSA

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

What is different

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

ix
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
ix: $0.0288
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
ix: $0.0108
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
ix: $0.101 per GiB-month stored
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
ix: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
ix: Active CPU time only
MIOSA: Per second
Largest sandbox
ix: 100 vCPU · 256 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
ix: Up to 100
MIOSA: Up to 250
Isolation
ix: Full VM
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
ix: Python, TypeScript, Rust
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
ix: $0.0288
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
ix: $0.0108
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
ix: $0.101 per GiB-month stored
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
ix: Not listed
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
ix: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
ix: Active CPU time only
MIOSA: Per second

Limits

Max session
ix: Not listed
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
ix: Not listed
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
ix: 100 vCPU · 256 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
ix: Up to 100
MIOSA: Up to 250

Platform

Isolation
ix: Full VM
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
GPU
ix: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
Snapshots
ix:
MIOSA:
Pause and resume
ix: Not listed
MIOSA:

Developer

SDKs
ix: Python, TypeScript, Rust
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
ix: MCP
MIOSA: MCP

Trust

License
ix: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
ix: Not listed
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

ix
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
ix: $0.050
MIOSA: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
ix: $0.101
MIOSA: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
ix: $0.202
MIOSA: $0.298

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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 want the lower list price: $0.101 against $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

MIOSA fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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