Runtime vs Sendblue Sandboxes

Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

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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

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

What is different

9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Runtime
Sendblue Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Runtime: $0.025
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Runtime: $0.0075
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Free tier
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Billing
Runtime: Active CPU time only
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Idle stop
Runtime: After 5 minutes
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Runtime: Up to 200
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5
Isolation
Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Pause and resume
Runtime:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Runtime: $0.025
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Runtime: $0.0075
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from
Runtime: Pay as you go
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Runtime: Active CPU time only
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Runtime: No limit
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Runtime: After 5 minutes
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Runtime: Up to 200
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
GPU
Runtime: No
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Runtime:
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Runtime:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Developer

SDKs
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Runtime: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Runtime: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Runtime
Sendblue Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Runtime: $0.040
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Runtime: $0.080
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Runtime: $0.160
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Runtime fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.330 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

Sendblue Sandboxes fits when

  • You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.

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