Runtime vs StateSet Sandbox
Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor 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
StateSet Sandbox
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- $25 trial credit, no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Runtime
StateSet Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Runtime: $0.025
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runtime: $0.0075
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Free tier
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Billing
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
- Max session
- Runtime: No limit
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Isolation
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- SDKs
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Runtimewithruntime
StateSet Sandboxsandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Runtime: $0.025
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runtime: $0.0075
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Storage
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Free tier
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Paid plan from
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Runtime: No limit
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Runtime: Up to 200
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- GPU
- Runtime: No
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Runtime:
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Runtime:
- StateSet Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Runtime: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Runtime: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Runtime
StateSet Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Runtime: $0.040
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Runtime: $0.080
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runtime: $0.160
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.028
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Runtime fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or LangChain.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
StateSet Sandbox fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.080 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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