Phonebox vs Runloop
Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours. Runloop runs microVMs.
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Phonebox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Max session
- 3 hours
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Phonebox
Runloop
- Free tier
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Billing
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
- Runloop: Per second
- SDKs
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Phonebox: MCP
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Phonebox: Up to 5
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- Phonebox:
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Phonebox: MCP
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Phonebox
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Runloop: $0.634
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Runloop fits when
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or Claude Code.
- You want the larger free credit: $50 against $2.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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