Lower-priced Runtime alternatives
19 lower-priced sandbox providers you can use instead of Runtime. Agent37 Cloud has the lowest hourly price, $0.006 for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB. Hugging Face Sandboxes, Koyeb Sandboxes, tama, Orgo and Northflank Sandboxes offer GPUs, which Runtime does not.
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Runtime, for reference
RuntimeFirecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents, billed on the CPU that code uses.
IsolationFirecracker
2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.080 / hr
Free tier100 free hours
Max sessionNo limit
19 lower-priced alternatives to Runtime
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 pricegVisorLower vCPU price$0.006per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes
Isolated cloud machines for running AI-generated code.GPUFull VMLower vCPU price$0.010per hour
Krova Cloud
Firecracker microVMs with root access, billed by the minute.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceAutomatic snapshots on a tier schedule, plus manual ones$0.012per hour
Zipbox
Long-lived Firecracker microVMs for AI agents, each with its own desktop.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceNo named snapshots or templates$0.014per hour
StateSet Sandbox
Sandboxes for AI agents, one Kubernetes pod each, with gVisor isolation.gVisorLower vCPU priceCheckpoints save and restore sandbox state$0.014per hour
Lizard Sandboxes
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceMemory and files; restore to new sandboxes$0.016per hour
$0.018per hour
Shellbox
Linux microVMs for developers and AI agents, made and controlled over SSH.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceDuplicate copies a stopped box with its memory snapshot$0.020per 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
$0.045per hour
Mosaic Sandbox
Linux microVM sandboxes for coding agents.FirecrackerRestore sandboxes from a saved snapshot.2 regions$0.050per hour
$0.060per hour
Orgo
Cloud Linux and Windows desktops that AI agents control by API or MCP.GPUFull VMClone a computer, or launch from a template snapshot$0.060per hour
Sandbox0
Long-running agent sandboxes with durable storage.Bills on memory onlygVisor$5 credit, one time$0.060per hour
Sailboxes
Persistent Linux VMs for long-horizon AI agents.Full VMLower vCPU price$5 credit every month$0.062per hour
Northflank Sandboxes
MicroVM sandboxes for running untrusted code.GPUCloud HypervisorLower vCPU price$0.067per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agents, with E2B SDK support.MicroVMLower vCPU priceMemory and file system. Flash Edition needs allowlist access.$0.071per hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Lightweight virtual machines that run a container image in their own kernel and pause when idle.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceCheckpoints save memory and disk$0.078per hour
Side by side
Runtime first, then the 19 alternatives
Provider
Isolation
vCPU / hr
GiB / hr
Free tier
Max session
GPU
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.025
- Free tier
- 100 free hours
- 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
- $0.001
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.007
- Free tier
- $25 credit
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.006
- Free tier
- $25 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.008
- Free tier
- 7-day trial
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.009
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial with 25 hours of compute
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.010
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.014
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.015
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- 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
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.030
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- Included
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.015
- Free tier
- $5 credit each month
- Isolation
- Cloud Hypervisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.017
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.018
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.022
- Free tier
- Not listed