ix vs Runtime
ix costs $0.0288 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. ix runs full VMs. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Runtime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
ix
Runtime
- vCPU, per hour
- ix: $0.0288
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- ix: $0.0108
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- ix: $0.101 per GiB-month stored
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- ix: None
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Largest sandbox
- ix: 100 vCPU · 256 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- ix: Up to 100
- Runtime: Up to 200
- Isolation
- ix: Full VM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- ix: Python, TypeScript, Rust
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- ix: MCP
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
ixix
Runtimewithruntime
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- ix: $0.0288
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- ix: $0.0108
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- ix: $0.101 per GiB-month stored
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- ix: None
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- ix: Pay as you go
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Billing
- ix: Active CPU time only
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- ix: Not listed
- Runtime: No limit
- Idle stop
- ix: Not listed
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- ix: 100 vCPU · 256 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- ix: Up to 100
- Runtime: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- ix: Full VM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- ix: Not listed
- Runtime: No
- Snapshots
- ix:
- Runtime:
- Pause and resume
- ix: Not listed
- Runtime:
Developer
- SDKs
- ix: Python, TypeScript, Rust
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- ix: MCP
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- ix: Not listed
- Runtime: Not listed
- BYOC
- ix: Not listed
- Runtime: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
ix
Runtime
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- ix: $0.050
- Runtime: $0.040
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- ix: $0.101
- Runtime: $0.080
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- ix: $0.202
- Runtime: $0.160
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
ix fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 64 GiB.
Runtime fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.101 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want to start without paying.
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