MicroVM Runloop alternatives
42 microVM sandbox providers you can use instead of Runloop. 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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Runloop, for reference
RunloopDevboxes built for coding agents.
IsolationMicroVM
2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.317 / hr
Free tier$50 credit
Max sessionNot listed
42 microVM alternatives to Runloop
Sorted by hourly price for 2 vCPU · 4 GiB, low to high
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Lizard Sandboxes
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.No session limitFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.016per hour
$0.029per hour
Celesto Cloud
Cloud computers for AI agents, each in a microVM.MicroVMLower vCPU priceSnapshot and resume keep processes intact$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
Oblien Workspace
Hosted microVM workspaces for AI agents.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.092per hour
$0.110per hour
CreateOS Sandbox
Hosted Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.No session limitFirecrackerLower vCPU price$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.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.126per hour
Docker Sandboxes
Cloud microVM sandboxes for coding agents, run by Docker.MicroVMLower vCPU priceManaged through the API$0.140per hour
Together Sandbox
Isolated runtime environments for code from AI agents.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceSnapshot on termination keeps state$0.149per hour
boxd
Persistent Linux machines for devs and AI agents.MicroVMLower vCPU priceFork, snapshots, and checkpoints$0.150per hour
BoxLite Cloud
Hosted microVM boxes for AI agents, with an SDK.MicroVMLower vCPU priceDisabled on Cloud$0.158per hour
Fly.io Sprites
Persistent Linux computers that sleep when idle.Bills active CPU onlyMicroVMLower vCPU price$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 limitMicroVM$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
InstaVM
Hardware-isolated microVMs for AI agent code.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceFork any sandbox, rewind any run$0.166per hour
Leap0
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI-generated code.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceMemory and disk state$0.166per hour
Superserve
Firecracker microVM sandboxes that pause and resume.No session limitFirecrackerLower vCPU price$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.Bills active CPU onlyNo session limitFirecracker$0.173per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox
Containers at the edge, driven from a Worker.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower vCPU price$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.Bills active CPU onlyGPUNo session limit$0.200per hour
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
Isolated microVM sandboxes that start on demand.MicroVMLower vCPU priceMemory and disk; restore in under a second$0.216per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter
Managed code sandboxes for AI agents on AWS.Bills active CPU onlyMicroVMLower vCPU price$0.217per hourAWS Lambda MicroVMs
Serverless microVMs on AWS that suspend when idle.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceImage snapshot of an initialized app$0.252per hour
Deno Sandbox
Linux microVMs for running untrusted and generated code.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.300per hour
$0.300per hour
$0.341per hour
Vercel Sandbox
Isolated Linux microVMs for running untrusted code.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.341per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agent workloads.MicroVMCheckpoint and restore of memory stateNot listedper hour
Not 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
Not listedper hour
RemoteHost
Persistent, hardware-isolated microVMs for coding agents.Firecracker3 regions7-day free trialNot listedper hour
Unikraft Cloud
MicroVM sandboxes that start in under 10 ms.FirecrackerSnapshot history and rollback on Pro5 regionsNot listedper hour
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Runloop first, then the 42 alternatives
Provider
Isolation
vCPU / hr
GiB / hr
Free tier
Max session
GPU
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.108
- Free tier
- $50 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
- $0.128
- 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