CreateOS Sandbox vs Notte
Notte fits teams automating logged-in web workflows: credential vaults and personas let an agent sign in to sites, and sessions cost $0.01 per hour. CreateOS Sandbox fits work that goes past the browser, such as running agent-written programs for hours, because each sandbox is a Firecracker micro-VM with no lifetime cap.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. Notte 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
Notte
Browser sessions cost $0.01 per hour, browser functions $0.05 per hour and residential proxies $10/GB, on plans from Free ($10 one-time credits) to Startup at $100/month, as of 17 October 2026.
Where CreateOS Sandbox Fits Better
What CreateOS Sandbox brings to this matchup, with a plain note on where Notte has the edge.
Sandboxes have no lifetime cap, while Notte sessions top out at 24 hours and plan caps run from 15 to 300 minutes.
A published isolation model: each sandbox gets its own guest kernel, root filesystem and network identity.
Pause keeps disk, memory and CPU state, and the paused sandbox can be forked to retry a step several ways.
Egress allowlist by host, IP, CIDR or wildcard, enforced on the host outside the VM.
Where Notte is strong
Credential vaults and personas are built in, so an agent can sign in to websites without the developer building secrets handling, and browser sessions cost only $0.01 per hour.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- Agent tasks run past Notte's plan caps of 15 minutes on Free, 120 on Developer or 300 on Startup.
- You need to run arbitrary code, not only drive a browser.
- You need to restrict where agent code can connect.
Pick Notte if
- Your agents log in to many sites and you want stored credentials and identities managed for you.
- Sessions are short and browser-only, so $0.01/hour session pricing wins.
- You want deployable browser functions at $0.05/hour.
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 | Notte |
|---|---|---|
| What you get (browser vs full Linux machine) | Full Linux micro-VM; the desktop:1 image adds an XFCE desktop, Google Chrome and a computer-use API | Cloud browser sessions, browser functions, agents, proxies, vaults and personas |
| Isolation | Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel, root filesystem and network identity | Not published |
| Session length | No lifetime cap; optional idle auto-pause from 60 s to 24 h, off by default | Idle timeout 3 min default (max 30); max duration 15 min default, up to 1,440 min; plan caps Free 15, Developer 120, Startup 300 min |
| Run arbitrary code | Yes: exec, shell, files and managed processes; devbox:1 ships Python 3.12, Node.js 24, Go, Rust and Docker | Browser functions deployable at $0.05/hour; general shell or compute shape not published |
| 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 | Open web; residential proxies $10/GB when enabled; bring-your-own proxy on Startup; allowlist controls not published |
| Billing | Per second: $0.03616363/vCPU-hr, $0.01159025/GiB-hr, storage $0.0001584/GB-hr; no per-GB egress price, 50 GiB bandwidth budget per sandbox | Sessions $0.01/hour, functions $0.05/hour, on monthly plans (Free $0 to Startup $100/mo) with included credits |
| Pause and resume | Pause saves disk, memory and CPU state; vCPU stops billing, memory and storage still bill | Browser profiles and cookie persistence across sessions; pausing a live session not published |
| Interfaces | SDKs in TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, C# and Java (all but TypeScript pre-1.0), CLI, MCP server, REST API | Python SDK, Node SDK, CLI, MCP server, REST API |
Common Questions
Does Notte store website logins for my agent?
Yes. Notte offers credential vaults and personas, limited by plan to 5 on Free, 50 on Developer and 200 on Startup. CreateOS Sandbox documents no built-in credential vault, so login handling stays in your own code running inside the sandbox.
Can a Notte session run for a full day?
Only at the top end. Notte's docs allow up to 1,440 minutes, but its pricing page caps sessions at 120 minutes on Developer and 300 on Startup, which suggests a full day needs Enterprise. CreateOS sandboxes have no lifetime cap on any plan.
Is Notte open source?
Its repository is published under SSPL-1.0, and on-premise deployment is offered on Enterprise. CreateOS self-hosting is also Enterprise only, but it is onboarded by the CreateOS team rather than installed from source.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
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