CreateOS Sandbox vs KakaoCloud
KakaoCloud is for Korean companies that need domestic VMs, GPUs or NPUs with billing in won. CreateOS Sandbox is for agent and untrusted code that runs in the eu or us regions, in micro-VMs with pause, fork and outbound allowlists. If data must stay in Korea, KakaoCloud is the option of the two.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. KakaoCloud 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
KakaoCloud
Excluding VAT, m2a.large (2 vCPU, 8 GiB) is 102 won per hour, r2a.24xlarge is 6,432 won per hour and A100 (p2i) instances are 5,334 to 21,590 won per hour, billed per minute from creation to deletion, as of 17 October 2026.
Where CreateOS Sandbox Fits Better
What CreateOS Sandbox brings to this matchup, with a plain note on where KakaoCloud has the edge.
Per-second billing, against KakaoCloud's per-minute billing.
Memory and CPU state survive a pause, and a paused sandbox forks into copies; KakaoCloud publishes neither.
An opt-in public HTTPS URL with managed certificates for exposing a dev server.
Where KakaoCloud is strong
Per-minute billing in Korean won with Korean-hosted GPUs and FuriosaAI NPUs, suited to data-residency needs in Korea.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- Your agents and users are in Europe or the US
- You need sandboxes that pause with memory and fork
- You want outbound traffic limited to listed hosts
Pick KakaoCloud if
- Your data must be hosted in Korea
- You need NVIDIA A100, T4 or FuriosaAI WARBOY NPU instances
- You want sizes up to 96 vCPU and 768 GiB
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 | KakaoCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Isolation | Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel | Full VM (hypervisor not published) |
| Create and destroy by API | Yes: REST API, CLI, SDKs for TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, C# and Java (all but TypeScript pre-1.0), and an MCP server with create, exec and destroy tools | OpenAPI listed in docs; CLI and Terraform not confirmed |
| Memory snapshot (pause and resume) | Yes: pause saves disk, memory and CPU state; vCPU stops billing while paused, memory and storage still bill | Not published |
| Fork | Yes: fork a paused sandbox into new, independent sandboxes | Not published |
| Outbound network controls | 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 |
| Billing granularity | Per second while running, no minimums: $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour, $0.01159025 per GiB-hour | Per minute, from creation to deletion |
| Largest size | 8 vCPU / 16 GB on Enterprise (8 / 8 Pro, 4 / 4 Beginner, 1 / 1 Free) | 24xlarge sizes: 96 vCPU, up to 768 GiB |
| GPU | No GPU shapes | Yes: NVIDIA T4, NVIDIA A100 and FuriosaAI WARBOY NPU |
Common Questions
How does KakaoCloud bill virtual machines?
Per minute, from creation to deletion, in Korean won excluding VAT, with monthly figures based on 30 days. For example, m2a.large with 2 vCPU and 8 GiB is 102 won per hour. CreateOS bills per second in US dollars at $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour.
What does KakaoCloud charge for outbound data?
Inbound is free, the first 30 GiB outbound is free, then 90 won per GiB up to 10 TiB, falling to 70 won per GiB above 20 TiB. CreateOS has no egress fees and a 50 GiB outbound budget per sandbox by default.
Does KakaoCloud offer NPUs as well as GPUs?
Yes. Alongside NVIDIA T4 and A100 instances, KakaoCloud offers FuriosaAI WARBOY NPU instances (gf1i). CreateOS Sandbox offers no GPU shapes; its largest sandbox is 8 vCPU / 16 GB on the Enterprise plan.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
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