Runloop vs Sailboxes
Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. Runloop runs microVMs. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.
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Sailboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Runloop
Sailboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Runloop: $0.108
- Sailboxes: $0.015
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Sailboxes: $0.008
- Storage
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
- Isolation
- Runloop: MicroVM
- Sailboxes: Full VM
- SDKs
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Runloop: $0.108
- Sailboxes: $0.015
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Sailboxes: $0.008
- Storage
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Sailboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Runloop: Per second
- Sailboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Runloop: Not listed
- Sailboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Runloop: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Runloop: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Runloop: MicroVM
- Sailboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- Runloop: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Runloop:
- Sailboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Runloop:
- Sailboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
- Integrations
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Sailboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Runloop: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
- Sailboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Runloop
Sailboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Runloop: $0.158
- Sailboxes: $0.031
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Runloop: $0.317
- Sailboxes: $0.062
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runloop: $0.634
- Sailboxes: $0.124
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Runloop fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You want the larger free credit: $50 against $5.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Sailboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.
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