Runtime vs Vers

Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and Vers costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Vers runs full VMs.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Runtime

Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents, billed on the CPU that code uses.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Max session: No limit

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Vers

Linux computers you can branch, checkpoint, and restore.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Starting credit
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Vers profile

What is different

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

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Runtime

Vers

vCPU, per hour: Runtime: $0.025; Vers: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour: Runtime: $0.0075; Vers: Included
Storage: Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB; Vers: Kept commits are billed. No rate on the pricing page.
Free tier: Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days; Vers: Starting credit
Billing: Runtime: Active CPU time only; Vers: Per second
Isolation: Runtime: Firecracker microVM; Vers: Full VM
SDKs: Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java; Vers: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Runtime: $0.025; Vers: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour: Runtime: $0.0075; Vers: Included
Storage: Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB; Vers: Kept commits are billed. No rate on the pricing page.
Free tier: Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days; Vers: Starting credit
Paid plan from: Runtime: Pay as you go; Vers: Pay as you go
Billing: Runtime: Active CPU time only; Vers: Per second

Limits

Max session: Runtime: No limit; Vers: Not listed
Idle stop: Runtime: After 5 minutes; Vers: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB; Vers: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Runtime: Up to 200; Vers: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Runtime: Firecracker microVM; Vers: Full VM
GPU: Runtime: No; Vers: Not listed
Snapshots: Runtime:; Vers:
Pause and resume: Runtime:; Vers:

Developer

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

Trust

License: Runtime: Not listed; Vers: Not listed
BYOC: Runtime: Not listed; Vers: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Runtime

Vers

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Runtime: $0.040; Vers: $0.040
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Runtime: $0.080; Vers: $0.080
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Runtime: $0.160; Vers: $0.160

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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 need a desktop in the sandbox.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Vers fits when

You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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