CreateOS Sandbox vs OVHcloud
OVHcloud is the low-cost choice for long-lived VMs and GPU instances with heavy outbound traffic, since egress is included outside Asia-Pacific. CreateOS Sandbox is the choice for agent code that runs in short bursts, where hourly billing wastes money and you want pause and fork. Pick by how long each machine lives.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. OVHcloud 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
US consumption prices run from $0.0129 per hour (d2-2, 1 vCore, 2 GB) through $0.0605 (b3-8) to $3.864 (b3-512, 128 vCores, 512 GB), with an L40S instance at $1.80 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 OVHcloud has the edge.
Per-second billing instead of hourly consumption pricing.
A paused sandbox's memory snapshot can seed many new sandboxes; OVHcloud publishes no fork or memory snapshot.
Outbound allowlists per sandbox, applied live and enforced outside the VM.
Where OVHcloud is strong
Low hourly prices with outbound traffic included in most regions, so egress-heavy workloads cost far less than on hyperscalers.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- Agent tasks last seconds or minutes, not hours
- You want to pause an agent's machine and fork it for retries
- You want each sandbox's outbound traffic limited to listed hosts
Pick OVHcloud if
- You need instances up to 128 vCores and 512 GB
- You push lots of outbound traffic from Europe or North America
- You want H100 or L40S GPU instances
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Isolation | Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel | Full VM |
| 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 | OpenStack APIs and CLI, OVHcloud API, Terraform (not re-verified) |
| 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; security groups and firewall you manage |
| Billing granularity | Per second while running, no minimums: $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour, $0.01159025 per GiB-hour | Hourly (consumption) or monthly |
| Largest size | 8 vCPU / 16 GB on Enterprise (8 / 8 Pro, 4 / 4 Beginner, 1 / 1 Free) | b3-512: 128 vCores, 512 GB |
| GPU | No GPU shapes | Yes, including L40S and H100 flavors |
Common Questions
Is outbound traffic free on OVHcloud Public Cloud?
In most regions, yes: outgoing public traffic is included, except in Singapore, Sydney and Mumbai, where each project gets 1 TB a month and pays for extra GB. CreateOS has no egress fees and a 50 GiB outbound budget per sandbox by default.
What free credit does OVHcloud give new projects?
OVHcloud gives US$200 of free credit for a first project. CreateOS Free gives 500 credits with no card required, limited to one concurrent 1 vCPU / 1 GB sandbox and 10 creates per rolling 24 hours.
Can OVHcloud instances be billed per second for short agent tasks?
No. OVHcloud prices Public Cloud instances hourly or monthly, with an hourly minimum, so a two-minute task still pays for an hour. CreateOS bills per second while a sandbox runs, with no minimum.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
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