MIOSA vs Namespace Devboxes

MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour and Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs.

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MIOSA

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

Namespace Devboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
30-day free trial
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

MIOSA
Namespace Devboxes
vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Storage
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Free tier
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
MIOSA: Per second
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Idle stop
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Namespace Devboxes: Up to 50
Isolation
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript, Go
Integrations
MIOSA: MCP
Namespace Devboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Storage
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Free tier
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
MIOSA: Per second
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
MIOSA: 24 hours
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Namespace Devboxes: Up to 50

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript, Go
Integrations
MIOSA: MCP
Namespace Devboxes: Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

MIOSA
Namespace Devboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
MIOSA: $0.075
Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
MIOSA: $0.149
Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
MIOSA: $0.298
Namespace Devboxes: $0.240

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

MIOSA fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Namespace Devboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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