Oblien Workspace vs Sandbox0

Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.

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Oblien Workspace

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

Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Oblien Workspace
Sandbox0
vCPU, per hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Sandbox0: Free
Billing
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Sandbox0: Memory only
Isolation
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
Sandbox0: gVisor
SDKs
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Oblien Workspace: MCP
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Sandbox0: Free
Free tier
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Sandbox0: Not listed
Paid plan from
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Sandbox0: Memory only

Limits

Max session
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Sandbox0: No limit
Idle stop
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Sandbox0: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Sandbox0: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
Sandbox0: gVisor
GPU
Oblien Workspace: No
Sandbox0: Not listed
Snapshots
Oblien Workspace:
Sandbox0:
Pause and resume
Oblien Workspace:
Sandbox0:

Developer

SDKs
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Oblien Workspace: MCP
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Oblien Workspace
Sandbox0
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
Sandbox0: $0.030
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
Sandbox0: $0.060
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Oblien Workspace: $0.184
Sandbox0: $0.120

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Sandbox0 fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.092 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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