MIOSA vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

MIOSA costs $0.0496 per vCPU-hour. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$1 of usage every month
Max session
24 hours

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

MIOSA
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.0496
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: Included
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage
MIOSA: Disk $0.10 per GiB a month while the machine runs. Paused disk and named snapshots $0.02 per GiB a month
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier
MIOSA: $1 of usage every month
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $20 / month
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
MIOSA: Bundled machine time
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 100
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096
Isolation
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.0496
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: Included
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage
MIOSA: Disk $0.10 per GiB a month while the machine runs. Paused disk and named snapshots $0.02 per GiB a month
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier
MIOSA: $1 of usage every month
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $20 / month
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
MIOSA: Bundled machine time
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only

Limits

Max session
MIOSA: 24 hours
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 100
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Platform

Isolation
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
MIOSA: No
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
MIOSA:
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
MIOSA:
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
MIOSA: MCP, Claude Code
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
MIOSA: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
MIOSA: Your own AWS or Google Cloud account, or your own servers through OpenComputers
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

MIOSA
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
MIOSA: $0.050
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
MIOSA: $0.099
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
MIOSA: $0.198
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

MIOSA fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.183 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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