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Runtime

Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents, billed on the CPU that code uses.

Runtime runs each sandbox in a Firecracker microVM. It costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and $0.0075 per GiB-hour, with CPU billed only while code uses it. It includes 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days for free.

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$0.025
vCPU per hour
$0.0075
RAM per GiB-hour
No limit
Max session
16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Largest sandbox

Runtime specifications

List prices and limits for Runtime

vCPU per hour
$0.025
RAM per GiB-hour
$0.0075
Storage
$0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Billing
Active CPU time only
Free tier
100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Paid plan from
Pay as you goPrepaid credit by card, $10 to $10,000. No plan fee
Max session
No limitNo time limit unless you set one, from 60 seconds to 24 hours
Idle stop
After 5 minutesPauses after 300 seconds with no activity. Set from 1 minute to 24 hours, or off
Sandbox size
Up to 16 vCPU, 64 GiB2 vCPU and 4 GiB without credit. More on request
Default size
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Up to 2004 without credit, 100 with credit, 200 with auto top-up. More on request
Storage
4 GiB by default. Up to 400 GiB on a paid account, 10 GiB without credit
Isolation
Firecracker microVM
GPU
No
Snapshots
Keep files, memory and running processes
Pause and resume
Keeps memory and running processes
Desktop
Linux desktop driven by clicks and keys
Regions
1
SDKs
JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Runtime plans

Free usage

$0
Free usage
100 GiB-hours of memory and 25 vCPU-hours of CPU, once in the first 30 days
Card
Not needed
Concurrent sandboxes
4
Largest sandbox
2 vCPU · 4 GiB · 10 GiB disk

Pay as you go

$0plus usage
Active CPU
$0.025 per vCPU-hour
Memory
$0.0075 per GiB-hour
Prepaid credit
$10 to $10,000
Free usage
Every month after the first payment
Credit match
Up to $1,000 in the first 30 days
Concurrent sandboxes
100, or 200 with auto top-up
Largest sandbox
16 vCPU · 64 GiB · 400 GiB disk
Outbound traffic
100 GiB a month free, then $0.02 per GB
Single sign-on and audit log

Hourly cost

Runtime next to other providers

One sandbox with 2 vCPU and 4 GiB of RAM for one hour, at list price.

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