CreateOS Sandbox vs Aptible
Aptible is built for regulated SaaS teams who need HIPAA and SOC 2 controls applied to their hosting and databases on AWS from day one. CreateOS Sandbox is built for short-lived agent execution, where every sandbox is its own micro-VM even on the Free plan. A health startup might run its app on Aptible and send its agent's code to a sandbox.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. Aptible pricing as published on 17 October 2026. Rates billed per GB rather than per GiB, or as bundled sizes, are quoted as published rather than converted.
CreateOS Sandbox
- Compute
- $0.0362 /vCPU-hr
- Memory
- $0.0116 /GiB-hr
Aptible
Aptible Development is $0/month base plus usage and Production $499/month base; containers cost $0.08/GB RAM/hour (General Purpose), $0.10 (CPU-Optimized) or $0.05 (RAM-Optimized), and endpoints $0.06/hour, as of 17 October 2026.
Where CreateOS Sandbox Fits Better
What CreateOS Sandbox brings to this matchup, with a plain note on where Aptible has the edge.
Every sandbox is a separate micro-VM, while Aptible describes its Shared Stacks as non-isolated between customers.
Per-second billing on separate vCPU and memory rates, compared with Aptible's hourly per-GB container pricing.
Pause, resume and fork a running environment. Aptible does not publish snapshots.
Where Aptible is strong
Compliance out of the box. HIPAA and SOC 2 controls, host intrusion detection and audit-ready evidence come with the platform, which saves regulated startups months of work.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- You need a fresh isolated machine per agent task
- You want to pay per second rather than per GB-hour
- You want egress allowlists on each execution environment
Pick Aptible if
- You need HIPAA, SOC 2 or HITRUST-ready hosting on AWS
- You want managed databases with backups under the same controls
- You need containers with very large memory, up to 752 GB
Head-to-Head Comparison
Every dimension side by side, checked on 17 October 2026 against each vendor's own docs and pricing pages. "Not published" means we could not find it on the vendor's pages, not that the feature is missing.
| Dimension | CreateOS Sandbox | Aptible |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | API-created sandboxes for agent-written and untrusted code | Regulated SaaS apps and databases on AWS (HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST) |
| Isolation | Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel | Container; Shared Stacks non-isolated, Dedicated Stacks network-isolated on dedicated AWS infrastructure |
| Ephemeral per-run environments | Yes. Create a sandbox per task by API, SDK, CLI or MCP and destroy it after | Not the model; apps are long-running containers |
| Pause and resume | Yes. Saves disk, memory and CPU state; vCPU stops billing while paused, memory and storage still bill | Not published |
| Outbound network | Open with no rules; deny-by-default once any rule exists (host, IP, CIDR, wildcard), enforced on the host outside the VM | Not published; Dedicated Stacks support VPN and VPC peering |
| Billing | Per second: $0.03616363/vCPU-hr, $0.01159025/GiB-hr, storage $0.0001584/GB-hr; no egress fees (50 GiB bandwidth budget per sandbox by default) | Hourly per GB of container RAM plus plan and stack fees |
| Run untrusted code | Yes, the core use case; each sandbox is its own micro-VM | Not published as a use case |
Common Questions
Are Aptible Shared Stacks isolated between customers?
No. Aptible describes Shared Stacks as non-isolated; Dedicated Stacks provide network-level isolation on dedicated AWS infrastructure for $499 per month. Every CreateOS sandbox runs in its own Firecracker micro-VM, and sandboxes cannot reach each other unless placed on the same private network.
What compliance does each platform carry?
Aptible states HIPAA and SOC 2 on Production, and HITRUST and PCI on Enterprise, with PCI self-hosted only. CreateOS is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, with reports available under NDA.
How does Aptible size CPU for a container?
By ratio to memory. General Purpose containers get 1/4 CPU per GB of RAM, CPU-Optimized 1/2 and Memory-Optimized 1/8, all priced per GB-hour. CreateOS prices vCPU and memory separately, at $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and $0.01159025 per GiB-hour.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
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