
Smol Machines
Hosted Linux microVMs with their own kernel, for agents and untrusted code.
Smol Machines runs each sandbox in a microVM. It costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour and $0.0162 per GiB-hour, with CPU billed only while code uses it. New accounts get a $100 credit, one time.
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$0.05
vCPU per hour
$0.0162
RAM per GiB-hour
Not listed
Max session
32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Largest sandbox
Smol Machines specifications
List prices and limits for Smol Machines
Pricing
smolmachines- vCPU per hour
- $0.05
- RAM per GiB-hour
- $0.0162
- Storage
- $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- Active CPU time only
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Pay as you goStandard plan has no monthly fee
Limits
smolmachines- Max session
- Not listed
- Idle stop
- Not listed
- Sandbox size
- Up to 32 vCPU, 32 GiBLimit of the Startup plan. Standard allows up to 8 vCPU and 16 GB.
- Default size
- Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Up to 1,00020 on Standard, 100 on Pro, 1,000 on Startup
- Storage
- 200 GB on Pro and Startup; not published for Standard
Platform
smolmachines- Isolation
- MicroVM
- GPU
- No
- Snapshots
- No
- Pause and resume
- Stop keeps disk files. RAM and processes are cleared.
- Desktop
- Not listed
- Regions
- Not listed
Developer
smolmachines- SDKs
- TypeScript, Python, Rust
- Integrations
- Not listed
Trust
github- License
- Apache-2.0
- Self-hosting
- Open-source smolvm runs on your own servers
- BYOC
- Not listed
- Compliance
- Not listed
Smol Machines plans
Hourly cost
Smol Machines next to other providers
One sandbox with 2 vCPU and 4 GiB of RAM for one hour, at list price.
Compute only. Storage and network are not included.
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