Sandock vs Smol Machines
Smol Machines costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Sandock runs containers and limits a session to 8 hours. Smol Machines runs microVMs.
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Smol Machines
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Sandock
Smol Machines
- Free tier
- Sandock: None
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Sandock: $5 / month
- Smol Machines: Pay as you go
- Largest sandbox
- Sandock: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandock: Up to 150
- Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- Sandock: Container
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Sandock: JavaScript / TypeScript
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
- License
- Sandock: MIT
- Smol Machines: Apache-2.0
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Sandocksandock
Smol Machinessmolmachines
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandock: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandock: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.0162
- Storage
- Sandock: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Sandock: None
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Sandock: $5 / month
- Smol Machines: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Sandock: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Sandock: 8 hours
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Sandock: After 30 minutes
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Sandock: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandock: Up to 150
- Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Sandock: Container
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- GPU
- Sandock: Not listed
- Smol Machines: No
- Snapshots
- Sandock: Not listed
- Smol Machines: No
- Pause and resume
- Sandock:
- Smol Machines:
Developer
- SDKs
- Sandock: JavaScript / TypeScript
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
- Integrations
- Sandock: MCP
- Smol Machines: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Sandock: MIT
- Smol Machines: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Sandock: Private / VPC deployment on Enterprise
- Smol Machines: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Sandock
Smol Machines
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Sandock: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.082
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Sandock: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.165
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandock: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.330
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Sandock fits when
- You use MCP.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Smol Machines fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want to start without paying.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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