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"minimum"
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{
"href": "/devboxes/",
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"minimum"
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"href": "/devboxes/",
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"operator": "Freestyle Cloud Inc.",
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"slug": "freestyle",
"status": "active",
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"vt": true
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"rounding",
"minimum"
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"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
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{
"href": "/devboxes/",
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"href": "/providers/fly-sprites/",
"logo": "/logos/fly-sprites.png",
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"name": "Fly.io Sprites",
"operator": "Fly.io, Inc.",
"plate": 20,
"slug": "fly-sprites",
"status": "active",
"status_label": "Active",
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"summary": "Persistent Firecracker microVMs for agents and dev environments that pause when idle, billed for CPU time and memory actually used plus storage."
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"vt": true
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"detail": "A sandbox is stopped after 12 h.",
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"light": "≥ $0.36",
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"rounding",
"minimum"
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{
"href": "/devboxes/",
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"slug": "devboxes"
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],
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"logo": "/logos/github.svg",
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"name": "GitHub Codespaces",
"operator": "GitHub (Microsoft)",
"plate": 23,
"slug": "github-codespaces",
"status": "active",
"status_label": "Active",
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"rank": 8,
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"src": 8,
"vt": true
},
{
"basis": "Active CPU",
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{
"detail": "Only CPU in use is billed, so idle time costs less; the light-use column shows how much.",
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"label": "Active-CPU billing"
},
{
"detail": "You buy credit up front. Whether unused credit expires is not published.",
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"label": "Prepaid"
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"detail": "A sandbox is stopped after 2 h.",
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"detail": "At most 1 sandboxes run at the same time.",
"key": "concurrency",
"label": "Max 1 running"
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"minimum"
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"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
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{
"href": "/devboxes/",
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"slug": "devboxes"
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],
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"logo": "/logos/tensorlake.svg",
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"name": "Tensorlake",
"operator": "Tensorlake Inc.",
"plate": 42,
"slug": "tensorlake",
"status": "active",
"status_label": "Active",
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"summary": "MicroVM sandboxes for AI agents with suspend/resume, memory snapshots and clones, billed for active CPU plus allocated memory and disk from prepaid credit or a Pro plan."
},
"rank": 9,
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"src": 9,
"vt": true
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{
"basis": "Running time",
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"rounding",
"minimum"
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"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
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{
"href": "/devboxes/",
"label": "Devboxes",
"slug": "devboxes"
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"logo": "/logos/islo.svg",
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"name": "Islo",
"operator": "Incredibuild",
"plate": 27,
"slug": "islo",
"status": "active",
"status_label": "Active",
"status_since": null,
"summary": "Persistent microVM sandboxes (\"Islo Machines\") for coding agents, with a credential-injecting gateway, billed per CPU-hour, GB-hour of memory and GB-hour of disk."
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"vt": true
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"detail": "The provider isn't taking new customers; shown for reference.",
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"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
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{
"href": "/devboxes/",
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"slug": "devboxes"
}
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"logo": "/logos/runloop.png",
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"name": "Runloop",
"operator": "Runloop AI, Inc.",
"plate": 37,
"slug": "runloop",
"status": "no_new_customers",
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"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
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