Runloop vs StateSet Sandbox
Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. Runloop runs microVMs. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor and limits a session to 24 hours.
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StateSet Sandbox
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- $25 trial credit, no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Runloop
StateSet Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Runloop: $0.108
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.0252
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Free tier
- Runloop: $50 credit
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Isolation
- Runloop: MicroVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- SDKs
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Runlooprunloop
StateSet Sandboxsandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Runloop: $0.108
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.0252
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Storage
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Free tier
- Runloop: $50 credit
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Paid plan from
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Runloop: Per second
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Runloop: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Runloop: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Runloop: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Runloop: MicroVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- GPU
- Runloop: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Runloop:
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Runloop:
- StateSet Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Runloop: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Runloop
StateSet Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Runloop: $0.158
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Runloop: $0.317
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runloop: $0.634
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.028
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.
- You want the larger free credit: $50 against $25.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
StateSet Sandbox fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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