Morph vs Upstash Box

Morph costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Morph runs full VMs. Upstash Box runs containers.

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Morph

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Upstash Box

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

What is different

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

Morph
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
Morph: $0.05
Upstash Box: $0.10
Billing
Morph: Bundled machine time
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Concurrent sandboxes
Morph: Up to 128
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Isolation
Morph: Full VM
Upstash Box: Container
SDKs
Morph: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Morph: $0.05
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Morph: Included
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Morph: Not listed
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Morph: Not listed
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Morph: Pay as you go
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Morph: Bundled machine time
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Morph: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
Morph: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Morph: Not listed
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Morph: Up to 128
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Morph: Full VM
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
Morph: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
Morph:
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
Morph:
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
Morph: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Morph: Not listed
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
Morph: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
Morph: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Morph
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Morph: $0.050
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Morph: $0.100
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Morph: $0.200
Upstash Box: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Morph fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.100 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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