MIOSA vs xShellz Agent Shell

MIOSA costs $0.0496 per vCPU-hour. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor and has no session limit.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

MIOSA

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

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

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xShellz Agent Shell

Always-on Linux boxes for AI agents, isolated with gVisor.

Isolation: gVisor
Free tier: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Max session: No limit

Visit site xShellz Agent Shell profile

What is different

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

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MIOSA

xShellz Agent Shell

Storage: MIOSA: Disk $0.10 per GiB a month while the machine runs. Paused disk and named snapshots $0.02 per GiB a month; xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier: MIOSA: $1 of usage every month; xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from: MIOSA: $20 / month; xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Max session: MIOSA: 24 hours; xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
Largest sandbox: MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: MIOSA: Up to 100; xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
Isolation: MIOSA: Firecracker microVM; xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
SDKs: MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java; xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

MIOSAmiosa.ai/pricing

xShellz Agent Shellxshellz.com/pricingxshellz.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: MIOSA: $0.0496; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour: MIOSA: Included; xShellz Agent Shell: Included
Storage: MIOSA: Disk $0.10 per GiB a month while the machine runs. Paused disk and named snapshots $0.02 per GiB a month; xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier: MIOSA: $1 of usage every month; xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from: MIOSA: $20 / month; xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Billing: MIOSA: Bundled machine time; xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: MIOSA: 24 hours; xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
Idle stop: MIOSA: After 30 minutes; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Largest sandbox: MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: MIOSA: Up to 100; xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation: MIOSA: Firecracker microVM; xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
GPU: MIOSA: No; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Snapshots: MIOSA:; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Pause and resume: MIOSA:; xShellz Agent Shell:

Developer

SDKs: MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java; xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Integrations: MIOSA: MCP, Claude Code; xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: MIOSA: Not listed; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
BYOC: MIOSA: Your own AWS or Google Cloud account, or your own servers through OpenComputers; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

MIOSA

xShellz Agent Shell

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: MIOSA: $0.050; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: MIOSA: $0.099; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: MIOSA: $0.198; xShellz Agent Shell: 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 need snapshots.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

xShellz Agent Shell fits when

A session must run longer than 24 hours.
You need GDPR.

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