Runtime vs Sandbox0
Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.
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Runtime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Runtime
Sandbox0
- vCPU, per hour
- Runtime: $0.025
- Sandbox0: Included
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Sandbox0: $0.015
- Storage
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Sandbox0: $0.02 per GiB-month for retained RootFS changes and memory checkpoints. Shared base images are free
- Free tier
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Sandbox0: $5 credit, one time
- Billing
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Sandbox0: Memory only
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Runtime: Up to 200
- Sandbox0: Up to 20
- Isolation
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox0: gVisor
- SDKs
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Sandbox0: Go, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
- Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Runtime: $0.025
- Sandbox0: Included
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Sandbox0: $0.015
- Storage
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Sandbox0: $0.02 per GiB-month for retained RootFS changes and memory checkpoints. Shared base images are free
- Free tier
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Sandbox0: $5 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Sandbox0: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Sandbox0: Memory only
Limits
- Max session
- Runtime: No limit
- Sandbox0: No limit
- Idle stop
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Runtime: Up to 200
- Sandbox0: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox0: gVisor
- GPU
- Runtime: No
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Runtime:
- Sandbox0:
- Pause and resume
- Runtime:
- Sandbox0:
Developer
- SDKs
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Sandbox0: Go, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
- Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Runtime: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- BYOC
- Runtime: Not listed
- Sandbox0: No
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Runtime
Sandbox0
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Runtime: $0.040
- Sandbox0: $0.030
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Runtime: $0.080
- Sandbox0: $0.060
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runtime: $0.160
- Sandbox0: $0.120
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Runtime fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, MCP or Claude Code.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
Sandbox0 fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.080 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.
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