CreateOS Sandbox vs PPIO Agent Sandbox
Pick PPIO Agent Sandbox if you serve users in mainland China and want E2B-compatible code on domestic regions with memory-preserving pause. Pick CreateOS Sandbox if you need regions in the EU or US, more than 8 GiB of memory in one sandbox, or sessions past an hour without setting a flag.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. PPIO Agent Sandbox 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
PPIO Agent Sandbox
PPIO bills per second at ¥0.00003 per vCPU-second and ¥0.000015 per GiB-second, with persistent storage at ¥0.0005 per GB-hour beyond 60 GB free and 20 GB of local disk free, as of 17 October 2026.
Where CreateOS Sandbox Fits Better
What CreateOS Sandbox brings to this matchup, with a plain note on where PPIO Agent Sandbox has the edge.
Regions in the EU and US; PPIO runs in cn-shanghai-1 and cn-beijing-1.
Up to 8 vCPU / 16 GB on Enterprise; PPIO tops out at 8 vCPU / 8 GiB.
No session cap; PPIO caps sandboxes at 1 hour unless the long_running flag is set.
Every sandbox is a Firecracker micro-VM with its own kernel; PPIO does not publish its isolation technology.
Where PPIO Agent Sandbox is strong
PPIO is a drop-in E2B-compatible sandbox hosted in mainland China, with pause that keeps memory and running processes, resume in about 1 s (vendor-stated), and snapshots, so teams serving Chinese users keep their E2B code and get local regions.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- Your users are in Europe or the US.
- You need 16 GB of memory in one sandbox.
- Agents run for hours without a special flag.
Pick PPIO Agent Sandbox if
- Your users are in mainland China.
- You have E2B code and want to switch by changing the domain.
- You want 50 concurrent sandboxes by default.
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 | PPIO Agent Sandbox |
|---|---|---|
| Isolation | Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel | Not published (isolated runtime with its own filesystem) |
| Pause and resume | Saves disk, memory and CPU state; vCPU billing stops, memory and storage still bill | Keeps filesystem and memory with running processes; resume in about 1 s (vendor-stated) |
| Fork | Forks a paused sandbox into many independent copies | Snapshots, then new sandboxes from them (cn-beijing-1) |
| Outbound network default | Open with no rules; deny-by-default once any host, IP, CIDR or wildcard rule exists, enforced on the host outside the VM | Internet on by default; can be disabled; allowOut and denyOut lists |
| Inbound access | Closed by default; opt-in HTTPS URL | Public URL with secure access on by default since SDK v2.0.0; SSH |
| Largest size | 8 vCPU / 16 GB on Enterprise; 8 vCPU / 8 GB on Pro | 8 vCPU / 8 GiB; 20 GB local disk |
| Concurrency | 1 / 5 / 20 / 30 by plan (Free to Enterprise); paused sandboxes count | 50 per user by default, raisable on request |
| Session length | No cap; optional idle auto-pause from 60 s to 24 h, off by default | 5-minute default; 1-hour cap unless long_running is set |
| Billing | Per second: $0.03616363/vCPU-hr, $0.01159025/GiB-hr, $0.0001584/GB-hr storage; no egress fees, 50 GiB bandwidth budget per sandbox | Per second: ¥0.00003 per vCPU-second, ¥0.000015 per GiB-second |
| SDKs and interfaces | TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, C#, Java (all but TypeScript pre-1.0), CLI, MCP, REST | Python and JS/TS SDKs, ppio CLI, E2B SDK and CLI compatibility |
Common Questions
Can I use the E2B SDK with PPIO Agent Sandbox?
Yes. PPIO supports the E2B SDK and CLI through a domain swap, alongside its own Python and JavaScript SDKs. CreateOS Sandbox does not offer E2B compatibility; it has its own SDKs in TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, C# and Java.
How long can a PPIO sandbox run?
The default timeout is 5 minutes, and sandboxes are capped at 1 hour unless you set the long_running metadata flag; on timeout PPIO kills or pauses the sandbox. CreateOS Sandbox has no session cap and no flag to set, so a sandbox runs until you stop it.
What currency is PPIO Agent Sandbox priced in?
Chinese yuan. PPIO charges ¥0.00003 per vCPU-second and ¥0.000015 per GiB-second, with persistent storage at ¥0.0005 per GB-hour beyond 60 GB free. CreateOS Sandbox is priced in US dollars at $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and $0.01159025 per GiB-hour.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
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