Smol Machines vs Superserve

Smol Machines costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour and Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Smol Machines runs microVMs. Superserve runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

Updated Oct 15, 2026

Smol Machines

Hosted Linux microVMs with their own kernel, for agents and untrusted code.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: $100 credit, one time
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Smol Machines profile

Superserve

Firecracker microVM sandboxes that pause and resume.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: $5 to start, plus $95 when you add billing
Max session: No limit

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What is different

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Superserve

vCPU, per hour: Smol Machines: $0.05; Superserve: $0.0504
Free tier: Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time; Superserve: $5 to start, plus $95 when you add billing
Billing: Smol Machines: Active CPU time only; Superserve: Per second
Largest sandbox: Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB; Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Isolation: Smol Machines: MicroVM; Superserve: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots: Smol Machines: No; Superserve:
SDKs: Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust; Superserve: Python, TypeScript

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Smol Machines: $0.05; Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour: Smol Machines: $0.0162; Superserve: $0.0162
Storage: Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour; Superserve: Not listed
Free tier: Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time; Superserve: $5 to start, plus $95 when you add billing
Paid plan from: Smol Machines: Pay as you go; Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing: Smol Machines: Active CPU time only; Superserve: Per second

Limits

Max session: Smol Machines: Not listed; Superserve: No limit
Idle stop: Smol Machines: Not listed; Superserve: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB; Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Smol Machines: Up to 1,000; Superserve: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation: Smol Machines: MicroVM; Superserve: Firecracker microVM
GPU: Smol Machines: No; Superserve: Not listed
Snapshots: Smol Machines: No; Superserve:
Pause and resume: Smol Machines:; Superserve:

Developer

SDKs: Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust; Superserve: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: Smol Machines: Not listed; Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: Smol Machines: Apache-2.0; Superserve: Not listed
BYOC: Smol Machines: Not listed; Superserve: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account. Enterprise plan.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Smol Machines

Superserve

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Smol Machines: $0.082; Superserve: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Smol Machines: $0.165; Superserve: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Smol Machines: $0.330; Superserve: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Smol Machines fits when

You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
You want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You want the larger free credit: $100 against $5.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Superserve fits when

You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP or Claude Code.
You need snapshots.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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