Lizard Sandboxes vs MIOSA

Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

MIOSA

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

What is different

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

Lizard Sandboxes
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
MIOSA: Per second
Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
MIOSA: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
MIOSA: Up to 250
SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
MIOSA: Per second

Limits

Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
MIOSA: Up to 250

Platform

Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
Snapshots
Lizard Sandboxes:
MIOSA:
Pause and resume
Lizard Sandboxes:
MIOSA:

Developer

SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Lizard Sandboxes
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
MIOSA: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
MIOSA: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
MIOSA: $0.298

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

MIOSA fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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