Runloop vs Upstash Box
Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Runloop runs microVMs. Upstash Box runs containers.
Updated
Upstash Box
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Runloop
Upstash Box
- vCPU, per hour
- Runloop: $0.108
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Upstash Box: Included
- Storage
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Billing
- Runloop: Per second
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- Runloop: MicroVM
- Upstash Box: Container
- Integrations
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Runlooprunloop
Upstash Boxupstash
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Runloop: $0.108
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Upstash Box: Included
- Storage
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Paid plan from
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Upstash Box: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Runloop: Per second
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Runloop: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Runloop: Not listed
- Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Runloop: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Runloop: MicroVM
- Upstash Box: Container
- GPU
- Runloop: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Runloop:
- Upstash Box:
- Pause and resume
- Runloop:
- Upstash Box:
Developer
- SDKs
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Trust
- License
- Runloop: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- BYOC
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
- Upstash Box: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Runloop
Upstash Box
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Runloop: $0.158
- Upstash Box: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Runloop: $0.317
- Upstash Box: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runloop: $0.634
- Upstash Box: $0.400
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 need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Upstash Box fits when
- You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
- 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.
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