Leap0 vs Runtime

Leap0 costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Leap0 runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Leap0

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free during public preview
Max session
8 hours

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.

Leap0
Runtime
vCPU, per hour
Leap0: $0.0504
Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Leap0: $0.0162
Runtime: $0.0075
Free tier
Leap0: Free during public preview
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Billing
Leap0: Per second
Runtime: Active CPU time only
Max session
Leap0: 8 hours
Runtime: No limit
Largest sandbox
Leap0: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Leap0: Up to 3
Runtime: Up to 200
SDKs
Leap0: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
Leap0: MCP, Claude Code, LangChain
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Leap0: $0.0504
Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Leap0: $0.0162
Runtime: $0.0075
Storage
Leap0: Not listed
Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier
Leap0: Free during public preview
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Paid plan from
Leap0: Not listed
Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
Leap0: Per second
Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Leap0: 8 hours
Runtime: No limit
Idle stop
Leap0: Not listed
Runtime: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
Leap0: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Leap0: Up to 3
Runtime: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
Leap0: Firecracker microVM
Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Leap0: Not listed
Runtime: No
Snapshots
Leap0:
Runtime:
Pause and resume
Leap0:
Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
Leap0: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
Leap0: MCP, Claude Code, LangChain
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Leap0: Not listed
Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
Leap0: Via the sales team
Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Leap0
Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Leap0: $0.083
Runtime: $0.040
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Leap0: $0.166
Runtime: $0.080
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Leap0: $0.331
Runtime: $0.160

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Leap0 fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Runtime fits when

  • A session must run longer than 8 hours.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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