MIOSA vs Railway Sandboxes

MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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MIOSA

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

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

MIOSA
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Free tier
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
MIOSA: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
MIOSA: MCP
Railway Sandboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
MIOSA: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
MIOSA: 24 hours
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
MIOSA: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
MIOSA:
Railway Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
MIOSA:
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
MIOSA: MCP
Railway Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

MIOSA
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
MIOSA: $0.075
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
MIOSA: $0.149
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
MIOSA: $0.298
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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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 want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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