Oblien Workspace vs Sendblue Sandboxes

Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour and Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

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Oblien Workspace

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

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Oblien Workspace
Sendblue Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Free tier
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Billing
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Pause and resume
Oblien Workspace:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
GPU
Oblien Workspace: No
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Oblien Workspace:
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Oblien Workspace:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Developer

SDKs
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Oblien Workspace: MCP
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Oblien Workspace
Sendblue Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Oblien Workspace: $0.184
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 want the lower list price: $0.092 against $0.330 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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