CreateOS Sandbox vs Baseten
Baseten is for companies serving their own or open models in production, with autoscaling, compliance and an optional self-hosted mode in their own VPC. CreateOS Sandbox is for running untrusted, agent-generated code in an interactive micro-VM with a shell, filesystem and egress controls. Baseten's unit is a model deployment; CreateOS's is a sandbox.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. Baseten 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
Baseten
Baseten lists H100 80GB at $0.10833 per minute, B200 at $0.16633 per minute and a 1x2 CPU instance at $0.00058 per minute, with no charge at zero replicas, as of 17 October 2026.
Where CreateOS Sandbox Fits Better
What CreateOS Sandbox brings to this matchup, with a plain note on where Baseten has the edge.
A shell and filesystem per session for agent code, where Baseten replicas are stateless model servers.
Egress allowlists you set per sandbox; Baseten does not publish egress defaults outside self-hosted mode.
Pause and fork with memory state, which Baseten does not document.
Per-second billing against Baseten's per-minute billing.
Where Baseten is strong
Production-grade autoscaling for model inference, including scale to zero with per-minute billing, multi-node deployments over InfiniBand, SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA (vendor-stated), and a self-hosted option where the workload runs in your own VPC.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- Your agent needs to run code it wrote, safely isolated.
- You need sessions that keep files and can be paused.
- You need hostname-based outbound rules.
Pick Baseten if
- You serve LLM, speech or image models in production.
- You want OpenAI-compatible Model APIs priced per token.
- You need the workload to run in your own cloud account.
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 | Baseten |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Running agent and untrusted code in isolated, disposable Linux sandboxes | Production model inference, Model APIs and training jobs |
| GPU | None; no GPU shapes | Yes: B200, H200, H100, H100 MIG, A100, RTX PRO 6000, A10G, L4, T4 |
| Isolation | Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel | Containers on multi-tenant infrastructure with dedicated GPUs; single-tenant and self-hosted options |
| Billing | Per second while running: $0.03616363/vCPU-hr, $0.01159025/GiB-hr, storage $0.0001584/GB-hr | Per minute for dedicated deployments; per token for Model APIs |
| Pause and resume | Yes: disk, memory and CPU state saved; vCPU stops billing, memory and storage still bill | Not documented; replicas are stateless and scale to zero |
| Outbound network | Open with no rules; deny-by-default once any host, IP, CIDR or wildcard rule exists, enforced on the host outside the VM | Not published (customer-controlled in self-hosted mode) |
| Create by API | Yes: REST API, CLI, MCP server and SDKs for TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, C# and Java (all but TypeScript pre-1.0) | Baseten CLI and Truss (Python); Model APIs compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic client SDKs |
Common Questions
Can Baseten run in my own cloud account the way CreateOS self-hosting does?
Yes. Baseten offers self-hosted, in your cloud account and VPC, and hybrid options on Enterprise, and Truss is open source under MIT. CreateOS self-hosting is also enterprise-only, onboarded by our team into the managed data plane rather than installed self-serve.
Does Baseten charge when no replicas are running?
No. Baseten bills dedicated deployments per minute with no charge at zero replicas, and replicas scale to zero after a default scale-down delay of 900 seconds. CreateOS bills running sandboxes per second; paused ones bill memory and storage but not vCPU.
Is Baseten a sandbox for agent code?
No. Baseten's unit is a model deployment behind an HTTPS endpoint, with no interactive shell, per-session filesystem or egress controls documented. CreateOS provides that: a Firecracker micro-VM per task, with exec, file transfer, tunnels and outbound rules.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
- Baseten: pricing, plans, compliance
- Baseten: product overview, training, SDKs
- Baseten: autoscaling defaults, scale to zero
- Baseten: startup time measurement
- Baseten: instance shapes, per-minute B200 price
- Baseten: hosting options, isolation
- Baseten: Truss license (MIT)
- CreateOS self-hosting
- CreateOS egress rules
- CreateOS Sandbox pricing
See CreateOS Sandbox for yourself
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