Runloop vs Tensorlake Sandboxes
Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Runloop runs microVMs. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Tensorlake Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Runloop
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Runloop: $0.108
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Billing
- Runloop: Per second
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Runlooprunloop
Tensorlake Sandboxestensorlake
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Runloop: $0.108
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Runloop: Per second
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Runloop: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Runloop: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Runloop: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Runloop: MicroVM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Runloop: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Runloop:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Runloop:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Runloop: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Runloop
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Runloop: $0.158
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Runloop: $0.317
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runloop: $0.634
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400
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 MCP.
Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need HIPAA.
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