Northflank Sandboxes vs Runloop
Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. Northflank Sandboxes runs microVMs and offers GPUs. Runloop runs microVMs.
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Northflank Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Northflank Sandboxes
Runloop
- vCPU, per hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Largest sandbox
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- SDKs
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Runlooprunloop
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Northflank Sandboxes
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133
- Runloop: $0.634
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Northflank Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want the lower list price: $0.067 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need HIPAA.
Runloop fits when
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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