Oblien Workspace vs Phonebox

Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.

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Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
Not listed

Phonebox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$2 starter credit, one time, no card
Max session
3 hours

What is different

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

Oblien Workspace
Phonebox
Free tier
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Billing
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Phonebox: Bundled machine time
SDKs
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Phonebox: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
Phonebox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Phonebox: Not listed
Storage
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Phonebox: Not listed
Free tier
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Billing
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Phonebox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Phonebox: 3 hours
Idle stop
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Phonebox: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
Phonebox: Not listed
GPU
Oblien Workspace: No
Phonebox: Not listed
Snapshots
Oblien Workspace:
Phonebox: Not listed
Pause and resume
Oblien Workspace:
Phonebox:

Developer

SDKs
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Phonebox: TypeScript
Integrations
Oblien Workspace: MCP
Phonebox: MCP

Trust

License
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
BYOC
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Oblien Workspace
Phonebox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
Phonebox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
Phonebox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Oblien Workspace: $0.184
Phonebox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need GDPR.

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