MIOSA vs Upstash Box

MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Upstash Box runs containers.

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MIOSA

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

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

MIOSA
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
MIOSA: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Idle stop
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Isolation
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
Upstash Box: Container
SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
MIOSA: MCP
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
MIOSA: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
MIOSA: 24 hours
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
MIOSA: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
MIOSA:
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
MIOSA:
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
MIOSA: MCP
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code, MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

MIOSA
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
MIOSA: $0.075
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
MIOSA: $0.149
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
MIOSA: $0.298
Upstash Box: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

MIOSA fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain, the Vercel AI SDK or Claude Code.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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