CreateOS Sandbox vs NAVER Cloud
NAVER Cloud is the right call when infrastructure must sit in Korea under Korean compliance regimes such as ISMS-P and CSAP, or when you want separate government and financial clouds. CreateOS Sandbox is the right call when code needs short-lived, isolated machines created per task with per-second billing. NAVER's servers are long-lived and limited per account by server type.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. NAVER Cloud 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
NAVER Cloud
Most NAVER Cloud server prices render client-side and could not be read; the static CPU Intensive-g2 example ci16-g2-h100 (16 vCPU, 32 GB, 100 GB) is KRW 836/hour or KRW 601,280/month excl. VAT, as of 17 October 2026.
Where CreateOS Sandbox Fits Better
What CreateOS Sandbox brings to this matchup, with a plain note on where NAVER Cloud has the edge.
Memory-state pause and fork, where NAVER's storage snapshots and server images copy disk data only.
Per-second billing with published USD rates, against hourly or monthly billing in KRW.
Hostname egress rules; NAVER ACGs filter by protocol, source or destination IP or ACG, and port.
Where NAVER Cloud is strong
A Korean hyperscale cloud with a long list of certifications (ISO 27001 family, SOC 1/2/3, ISMS-P and CSAP, vendor-stated), separate government and financial clouds, and GPUs up to 8x H100 or H200 with cluster networking.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- You create and discard environments per agent task.
- You want sandboxes paused with memory kept, then resumed or forked.
- You want outbound limited to named hosts by a rule outside the VM.
Pick NAVER Cloud if
- You must host in Korea under ISMS-P or CSAP.
- You need multi-GPU A100, H100 or H200 servers with Fabric Cluster networking.
- You want Korean-language support and KRW billing.
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 | NAVER Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Isolation | Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel | Full VM: KVM on g3, XEN on g1/g2 |
| Create and destroy by API | Yes: REST API, CLI, MCP server and SDKs for TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, C# and Java (all but TypeScript pre-1.0) | Yes: Ncloud REST API, Java, Python, JavaScript and Go SDKs, Terraform, CLI |
| Memory snapshot (pause and resume) | Yes: disk, memory and CPU state saved; vCPU stops billing, memory and storage still bill | Not documented; a stopped server is billed only for its base OS disk |
| Fork | Yes: fork a paused sandbox into many independent sandboxes | Indirect: storage snapshot, server image, then new servers |
| 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 | User-created ACGs have no default rules; outbound may be blocked without rules |
| Billing granularity | Per second while running: $0.03616363/vCPU-hr, $0.01159025/GiB-hr, storage $0.0001584/GB-hr | Hourly or monthly (monthly prorated by day) |
| Largest size | 8 vCPU / 16 GB on Enterprise; 8 vCPU / 8 GB on Pro | g3 Standard 64 vCPU / 256 GB; GPU servers up to 8x A100 or H100 with up to 1,960 GB |
| GPU | None; no GPU shapes | Yes: H200, H100, A100, L40S, L4, V100, T4, P40 |
Common Questions
Does NAVER Cloud have a free server?
Yes, with limits. The Micro server (1 vCPU, 1 GB) is free for one year from first payment registration, one per account, in the Korea region, for residents of Korea only; public IP, network and extra disk are still charged. CreateOS's Free plan needs no card and includes 500 credits.
Are NAVER Cloud servers blocked outbound by default?
It depends on the ACG. NAVER's docs say an ACG you create has no default inbound or outbound rules, and packets from the server may be blocked without outbound rules. A CreateOS sandbox is open outbound with an empty rule list and deny-by-default once you add a rule.
How many servers can I create on NAVER Cloud compared with CreateOS sandboxes?
NAVER sets per-account creation limits that vary by server type, country and member type, and the Micro server is limited to one per account. CreateOS caps concurrent sandboxes at 1, 5, 20 or 30 by plan and daily creates at 10, 50, 200 or 300.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
- NAVER Cloud: billing rules, generations, static ci-g2 prices, Micro free tier, peering rates
- NAVER Cloud: g3 KVM shapes, storage billing note
- NAVER Cloud: GPU models
- NAVER Cloud: hypervisors, max shapes, g3 regions, creation limits
- NAVER Cloud: egress / ACG
- NAVER Cloud: snapshots and images
- NAVER Cloud: compliance
- NAVER Cloud: SDKs, Terraform
- CreateOS Sandbox pricing
- CreateOS Sandbox limits
- CreateOS egress rules
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