MicroVM Railway Sandboxes alternatives
43 microVM sandbox providers you can use instead of Railway Sandboxes. Lizard Sandboxes has the lowest hourly price, $0.016 for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB. Northflank Sandboxes, Thunder Sandboxes, Tensorlake Sandboxes and CoreWeave Sandboxes offer GPUs.
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Railway Sandboxes, for reference
Railway SandboxesIsolated Linux VMs you create on demand and destroy.
IsolationFull VM
2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.417 / hr
Free tier$5 credit
Max sessionNot listed
43 microVM alternatives to Railway Sandboxes
Sorted by hourly price for 2 vCPU · 4 GiB, low to high
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$0.029per hour
$0.030per hour
Mosaic Sandbox
Linux microVM sandboxes for coding agents.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceRestore sandboxes from a saved snapshot.$0.050per hour
$0.067per hour
Prime Sandboxes
Isolated microVM sandboxes for AI agents and RL.No session limitMicroVMLower vCPU price$0.090per hour
$0.092per hour
$0.110per hour
CreateOS Sandbox
Hosted Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.No session limitDesktopFirecracker$0.119per hour
Caged
Isolated microVM sandboxes that record every agent action.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceFree plan, 5 sandboxes a day$0.120per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agents and their code.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceSnapshots and checkpoints, $0.05 per GiB-month$0.126per hour
Docker Sandboxes
Cloud microVM sandboxes for coding agents, run by Docker.MicroVMManaged through the APIOne-time promotional credit for cloud compute$0.140per hour
Together Sandbox
Isolated runtime environments for code from AI agents.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceSnapshot on termination keeps state$0.149per hour
$0.150per hour
BoxLite Cloud
Hosted microVM boxes for AI agents, with an SDK.MicroVMLower vCPU priceDisabled on Cloud$0.158per hour
$0.165per hour
microsandbox cloud
Hosted microVM sandboxes for AI agents and untrusted code.MicroVMLower vCPU priceDisk only, from stopped persistent sandboxes$0.165per hour
Blaxel
Sandboxes that pause when idle and resume with state.Bills on memory onlyNo session limitDesktop$0.166per hour
Declaw
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.FirecrackerLower vCPU price$100 sandbox credit, one time$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
Thunder Sandboxes
Isolated, short-lived sandboxes for agents, GPU optional.GPUFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.166per hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.No session limitFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.173per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox
Containers at the edge, driven from a Worker.FirecrackerLower RAM priceRetained 30 days from creation or the latest restore$0.180per hour
LangSmith Sandboxes
Isolated sandboxes for running agent-generated code.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceFrom Docker images or running sandboxes$0.189per hour
Tensorlake Sandboxes
MicroVM sandboxes for AI agents and AI-generated code.GPUNo session limitDesktop$0.200per hour
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
Isolated microVM sandboxes that start on demand.MicroVMLower RAM priceMemory and disk; restore in under a second$0.216per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter
Managed code sandboxes for AI agents on AWS.MicroVMLower RAM priceSOC 2$0.217per hourAWS Lambda MicroVMs
Serverless microVMs on AWS that suspend when idle.FirecrackerLower RAM priceImage snapshot of an initialized app$0.252per hour
Deno Sandbox
Linux microVMs for running untrusted and generated code.FirecrackerLower RAM priceRead-only images made from volumes$0.300per hour
Islo Sandboxes
Persistent microVM computers for coding agents.MicroVMLower RAM priceStarting credit, no card required$0.300per hour
$0.317per hour
$0.341per hour
Vercel Sandbox
Isolated Linux microVMs for running untrusted code.FirecrackerLower RAM price19 regions$0.341per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agent workloads.DesktopMicroVMCheckpoint and restore of memory stateNot listedper hour
Maritime
Hosting for persistent AI agents, each in its own micro-VM.DesktopFirecracker3 agents, foreverNot listedper hour
Nebius Sandboxes
Sandboxes for AI agents that branch from any checkpoint.MicroVMSaves filesystem state as an image, not running processes.Not listedper hour
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Unikraft Cloud
MicroVM sandboxes that start in under 10 ms.FirecrackerSnapshot history and rollback on Pro5 regionsNot listedper hour
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Provider
Isolation
vCPU / hr
GiB / hr
Free tier
Max session
GPU
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.069
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.008
- Free tier
- 7-day trial
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.014
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.015
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.025
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.017
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.020
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.030
- Free tier
- Free tier, no credit card
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.025
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.036
- Free tier
- 500 free credits
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.060
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.044
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.070
- Free tier
- One-time promotional credit for cloud compute
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.045
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.047
- Free tier
- $30 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.039
- Free tier
- $30 trial credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Included
- Free tier
- Credit of up to $200
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $200 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Free during public preview
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.051
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.054
- Free tier
- $5.40 / month
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.072
- Free tier
- None
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.058
- Free tier
- 8 LSU a month
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.070
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.086
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.090
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.100
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.100
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.070
- Free tier
- Credits to start
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.108
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.128
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.128
- Free tier
- 5 CPU-hrs / mo
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- 3 agents, forever
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- 7-day trial
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Hobby plan, free forever
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