MIOSA vs Phonebox

MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.

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MIOSA

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

Phonebox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$2 starter credit, one time, no card
Max session
3 hours

What is different

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

MIOSA
Phonebox
Free tier
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Billing
MIOSA: Per second
Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Max session
MIOSA: 24 hours
Phonebox: 3 hours
Idle stop
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Phonebox: Up to 5
SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Phonebox: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Phonebox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Phonebox: Not listed
Storage
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Phonebox: Not listed
Free tier
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Billing
MIOSA: Per second
Phonebox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
MIOSA: 24 hours
Phonebox: 3 hours
Idle stop
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Phonebox: Up to 5

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Phonebox: TypeScript
Integrations
MIOSA: MCP
Phonebox: MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

MIOSA
Phonebox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
MIOSA: $0.075
Phonebox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
MIOSA: $0.149
Phonebox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
MIOSA: $0.298
Phonebox: Not listed

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

MIOSA fits when

  • A session must run longer than 3 hours.
  • You want the larger free credit: $10 against $2.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Phonebox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.

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