Oblien Workspace vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Oblien Workspace

Hosted microVM workspaces for AI agents.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: Free tier, no credit card
Max session: No limit

Visit site Oblien Workspace profile

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Isolated microVMs for AI agents that fork from a saved snapshot, part of SF Compute Autoresearch.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: None
Max session: Not listed

Visit site SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

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Oblien Workspace

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: Oblien Workspace: $0.03; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: Oblien Workspace: $0.008; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier: Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Billing: Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Largest sandbox: Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation: Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
Integrations: Oblien Workspace: MCP; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Oblien Workspaceoblien.com/pricing

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxesautoresearch.sfcompute.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Oblien Workspace: $0.03; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: Oblien Workspace: $0.008; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier: Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from: Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only

Limits

Max session: Oblien Workspace: No limit; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop: Oblien Workspace: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Oblien Workspace: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Platform

Isolation: Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU: Oblien Workspace: No; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots: Oblien Workspace:; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
Pause and resume: Oblien Workspace:; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs: Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations: Oblien Workspace: MCP; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: Oblien Workspace: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: Oblien Workspace: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Oblien Workspace

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Oblien Workspace: $0.046; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Oblien Workspace: $0.092; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Oblien Workspace: $0.184; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Oblien Workspace fits when

You want the lower list price: $0.092 against $0.183 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You want to start without paying.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes fits when

You use Claude Code.
You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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