CreateOS Sandbox vs OVHcloud GPU
OVHcloud GPU suits European organisations that want dedicated GPUs inside a broad public cloud with predictable hourly or monthly pricing. CreateOS Sandbox suits fast, disposable CPU environments for agent code, billed per second, with no GPUs. OVHcloud's smallest billing unit is an hour on a full VM.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. OVHcloud GPU 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
OVHcloud GPU
OVHcloud lists h100-380 (1x H100, 30 vCore, 380 GB) at $2.99/hour and its cheapest Discovery instance d2-2 (1 vCore, 2 GB) at $0.0123/hour, 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 OVHcloud GPU has the edge.
Per-second billing for agent runs; OVHcloud bills hourly at minimum.
Memory-state pause and fork, where OVHcloud documents backups and private images rather than memory snapshots.
Egress allowlists per sandbox; OVHcloud does not publish a firewall default.
Where OVHcloud GPU is strong
Dedicated GPUs passed through to KVM VMs, bandwidth included in most regions, a 99.99% SLA and European data residency from a large EU provider.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- Your agent code runs on CPU for seconds or minutes per task.
- You want to fork and pause sessions.
- You want outbound limited to specific hosts.
Pick OVHcloud GPU if
- You need H100, H200, A100 or L40S GPUs in Europe.
- You want monthly GPU pricing for steady workloads.
- You want ISO 27001 and health data hosting from your GPU provider (vendor-stated).
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 | OVHcloud GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Running agent and untrusted code in isolated, disposable Linux sandboxes | Training, inference, rendering and HPC on dedicated NVIDIA GPUs |
| GPU | None; no GPU shapes | Yes: H200, H100, A100, L40S, L4, A10, Quadro RTX 5000, V100/V100S |
| Isolation | Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel | Full VM (KVM) with GPU via PCI passthrough |
| Billing | Per second while running: $0.03616363/vCPU-hr, $0.01159025/GiB-hr, storage $0.0001584/GB-hr | Hourly (excl. VAT) or monthly; monthly cannot switch back to hourly |
| Pause and resume | Yes: disk, memory and CPU state saved; vCPU stops billing, memory and storage still bill | Not published; disk persists; volume snapshots billed per GB-hour |
| 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 | Firewall default not published; outbound traffic included except in Asia-Pacific |
| 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) | Control Panel, API and command line |
Common Questions
Is outbound traffic free on OVHcloud GPU instances?
In most locations, yes: outbound public traffic is included, except in Asia-Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Mumbai), where 1 TB a month per project is included and extra GB is charged. CreateOS has no egress fees, with a 50 GiB outbound budget per sandbox by default.
Can I switch an OVHcloud GPU instance from monthly to hourly billing?
No. You choose hourly or monthly billing at launch, and OVHcloud says monthly cannot switch back to hourly. CreateOS has one model: per-second billing at the same rate on every plan, with no minimums or monthly commitment.
Does OVHcloud offer a free trial?
Yes, OVHcloud offers a free trial with US$200 credit. CreateOS's Free plan gives 500 credits, one concurrent sandbox up to 1 vCPU / 1 GB and 10 creates per rolling 24 hours, with no card required.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
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