MIOSA vs Perplexity Sandbox

MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Perplexity Sandbox runs containers.

Updated Oct 15, 2026

MIOSA

Cloud sandboxes and persistent computers that AI agents use to build and run software.

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

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Perplexity Sandbox

Isolated Linux containers that run Python and bash code inside a Perplexity Agent API request.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

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What is different

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

Field

MIOSA

Perplexity Sandbox

Isolation: MIOSA: Firecracker microVM; Perplexity Sandbox: Container
SDKs: MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java; Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript

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MIOSAmiosa.ai/pricing

Perplexity Sandboxdocs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricingdocs.perplexity.ai

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: MIOSA: $0.04536; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour: MIOSA: $0.01458; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Storage: MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier: MIOSA: $10 credit, one time; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from: MIOSA: $500 / month; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Billing: MIOSA: Per second; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation: MIOSA: Firecracker microVM; Perplexity Sandbox: Container
GPU: MIOSA: Not listed; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots: MIOSA:; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Pause and resume: MIOSA:; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs: MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java; Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: MIOSA: MCP; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License: MIOSA: Not listed; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC: MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

MIOSA

Perplexity Sandbox

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: MIOSA: $0.075; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: MIOSA: $0.149; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: MIOSA: $0.298; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

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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 pause and resume.

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