Lower-priced DigitalOcean MicroVMs alternatives
13 lower-priced sandbox providers you can use instead of DigitalOcean MicroVMs. Agent37 Cloud has the lowest hourly price, $0.006 for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB. Hugging Face Sandboxes, Koyeb Sandboxes, tama and Northflank Sandboxes offer GPUs.
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DigitalOcean MicroVMs, for reference
DigitalOcean MicroVMsLightweight virtual machines that run a container image in their own kernel and pause when idle.
IsolationFirecracker
2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.078 / hr
Free tierNot listed
Max sessionNot listed
13 lower-priced alternatives to DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Sorted by hourly price for 2 vCPU · 4 GiB, low to high
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Agent37 Cloud
Persistent Linux sandboxes and VMs for code and agents.Lowest hourly priceNo session limitDesktop$0.006per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes
Isolated cloud machines for running AI-generated code.GPUFull VMLower vCPU price$0.010per hour
$0.016per hour
$0.018per hour
$0.029per hour
$0.030per hour
Containarium Cloud
Hosted Linux boxes for AI agents, reached over SSH.ContainerLower vCPU priceFree tier$0.040per hour
$0.045per hour
Mosaic Sandbox
Linux microVM sandboxes for coding agents.FirecrackerRestore sandboxes from a saved snapshot.2 regions$0.050per hour
Bunny Sandbox
Isolated cloud sandboxes for AI agents, run on gVisor.Bills active CPU onlyNo session limitgVisor$0.060per hour
Sandbox0
Long-running agent sandboxes with durable storage.Bills on memory onlyNo session limitgVisor$0.060per hour
$0.062per hour
$0.067per hour
Side by side
DigitalOcean MicroVMs first, then the 13 alternatives
Provider
Isolation
vCPU / hr
GiB / hr
Free tier
Max session
GPU
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.022
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.001
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.005
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.008
- Free tier
- 7-day trial
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.009
- Free tier
- Free trial with 25 hours
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.014
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.015
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.020
- Free tier
- Free tier
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.012
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.025
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.020
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- Included
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.015
- Free tier
- $5 credit each month
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.017
- Free tier
- Not listed
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