CreateOS Sandbox vs Jarvislabs
Jarvislabs suits individual ML practitioners and small teams who want cheap GPU notebooks they can pause, especially in India. CreateOS Sandbox suits programs that create isolated CPU environments per task, with egress rules and fork from a paused copy. Jarvislabs has the GPUs; CreateOS has none.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. Jarvislabs 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
Jarvislabs
- Compute
- $0.0120 /vCPU-hr
- Memory
- See below
Jarvislabs lists H100 SXM at $3.49 per GPU-hour and A100 80GB at $1.49, billed per minute, with CPU VMs at $0.012 per vCPU plus $0.0032 per GB RAM per hour, as of 17 October 2026.
Where CreateOS Sandbox Fits Better
What CreateOS Sandbox brings to this matchup, with a plain note on where Jarvislabs has the edge.
Fork a paused sandbox into copies; Jarvislabs publishes no fork.
Pause saves memory as well as disk, while Jarvislabs pause keeps /home and has no memory snapshot.
Egress rules enforced on the host; Jarvislabs publishes no egress controls, and its VMs expose every port until a security group is attached.
Where Jarvislabs is strong
Low per-minute GPU prices with a pause-and-resume workflow that keeps your home directory and Python environments, and the option to change GPU type on resume, which suits interactive notebook work.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- Your code is CPU work run by an agent and needs isolation per task.
- You need outbound restricted to specific hosts.
- You want sandboxes in eu or us regions.
Pick Jarvislabs if
- You want an affordable GPU notebook in JupyterLab or VS Code.
- You want to switch GPU type between sessions.
- You are based in India and want local GPU capacity.
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 | Jarvislabs |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Running agent and untrusted code in isolated, disposable Linux sandboxes | Interactive ML development, fine-tuning and model hosting on single GPUs |
| GPU | None; no GPU shapes | Yes: H200, H100, RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, A100, L4, A30 |
| Isolation | Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel | Instances: containers from templates (no Docker inside). VMs: full VM |
| Billing | Per second while running: $0.03616363/vCPU-hr, $0.01159025/GiB-hr, storage $0.0001584/GB-hr | Per minute while running |
| Pause and resume | Yes: disk, memory and CPU state saved; vCPU stops billing, memory and storage still bill | Pause stops compute billing and keeps /home (storage $0.00014/GB-hour); no memory snapshot |
| 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; VMs reachable on every port until a security group is attached |
| 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) | Python SDK, jl CLI, legacy API, dstack integration |
Common Questions
Does Jarvislabs keep my files when I pause?
Yes, data under /home survives pause along with Python environments, billed at $0.00014 per GB-hour while paused, but data is permanently deleted if your balance goes negative. CreateOS pause saves the whole disk plus memory and CPU registers, billing memory and storage until resume.
Is Jarvislabs cheaper per vCPU than CreateOS?
Yes. Jarvislabs CPU VMs cost $0.012 per vCPU-hour plus $0.0032 per GB of RAM per hour, against $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and $0.01159025 per GiB-hour on CreateOS. CreateOS bills per second and adds micro-VM isolation, egress rules and fork.
Where are Jarvislabs servers located?
In India only, in tier 3 and tier 4 data centers, with Noida named for CPU VMs. CreateOS runs sandboxes in two managed regions, eu and us, so the two do not overlap on location.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
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