Runtime vs Solari

Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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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

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Runtime
Solari
vCPU, per hour
Runtime: $0.025
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Runtime: $0.0075
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Runtime: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Runtime: Active CPU time only
Solari: Per second
Max session
Runtime: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Runtime: Up to 200
Solari: Up to 10
Isolation
Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Runtime: $0.025
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Runtime: $0.0075
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Runtime: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Runtime: Active CPU time only
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
Runtime: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
Runtime: After 5 minutes
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Runtime: Up to 200
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
Runtime: No
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
Runtime:
Solari:
Pause and resume
Runtime:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Runtime: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
Runtime: Not listed
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Runtime
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Runtime: $0.040
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Runtime: $0.080
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Runtime: $0.160
Solari: $0.342

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Runtime fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or LangChain.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.171 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Solari fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need HIPAA.

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