Smol Machines vs Tensorlake Sandboxes
Smol Machines costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Smol Machines runs microVMs. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Smol Machines
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Smol Machines
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Smol Machines: $0.05
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Smol Machines: $0.0162
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Largest sandbox
- Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- GPU
- Smol Machines: No
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Smol Machines: No
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- SDKs
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Smol Machinessmolmachines
Tensorlake Sandboxestensorlake
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Smol Machines: $0.05
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Smol Machines: $0.0162
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Smol Machines: Pay as you go
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Smol Machines: No
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Smol Machines: No
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Smol Machines:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Smol Machines: Apache-2.0
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Smol Machines
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Smol Machines: $0.082
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Smol Machines: $0.165
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Smol Machines: $0.330
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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