CreateOS Sandbox vs Scrapfly
Teams already scraping with Scrapfly should look at its Cloud Browser first: patched Chromium, proxy pools and a per-browser MCP endpoint sit on the same credit balance. Teams whose agents also run code on what they collect should look at CreateOS Sandbox, where a micro-VM runs as long as the job takes.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. Scrapfly 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
Scrapfly
Cloud Browser costs 1 credit per 30 s plus 7 credits/MB datacenter or 52 credits/MB residential bandwidth, 5-credit minimum per session, on plans from Free (1,000 credits) to Enterprise at $500/month, as of 17 October 2026.
Where CreateOS Sandbox Fits Better
What CreateOS Sandbox brings to this matchup, with a plain note on where Scrapfly has the edge.
Sandboxes keep running past 30 minutes; Scrapfly browser sessions max out at 1,800 s.
devbox:1 carries Python 3.12 with 374 packages, including pandas and scikit-learn, for processing what the agent collects in the same VM.
Paused sandboxes keep RAM and process state, so a job can stop and resume later.
Where Scrapfly is strong
Scraping-grade stealth, with patched Chromium and proxy pools, plus a built-in MCP endpoint on each browser, all on one credit balance with Scrapfly's scraping APIs.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- Agents must clean, analyse or store data in the same environment they fetch it.
- Jobs run longer than 30 minutes.
- You need a published compute shape for capacity planning.
Pick Scrapfly if
- You already use Scrapfly scraping APIs.
- You want an MCP endpoint attached to each browser.
- Your sessions finish within 30 minutes.
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 | Scrapfly |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Remote patched-Chromium pool over CDP, part of a scraping API suite |
| 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 | Default 900 s (15 min), maximum 1,800 s (30 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 over CDP for Puppeteer, Playwright and agent frameworks; no compute shape 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 | Datacenter proxy by default, residential optional, country by ISO code; 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 | 1 credit per 30 s plus bandwidth (7 credits/MB datacenter, 52 residential), 5-credit minimum; plans Free to $500/mo |
| Pause and resume | Pause saves disk, memory and CPU state; vCPU stops billing, memory and storage still bill | Resumable via a session identifier; auto_close=false keeps the browser alive after disconnect |
| Interfaces | SDKs in TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, C# and Java (all but TypeScript pre-1.0), CLI, MCP server, REST API | Python SDK, Puppeteer and Playwright (JS and Python), built-in MCP endpoint |
Common Questions
What is the longest Scrapfly Cloud Browser session?
1,800 seconds, or 30 minutes, with a 15-minute default. CreateOS sandboxes have no lifetime cap, and you can pause one with its memory state and resume it later.
Does Scrapfly hold compliance certifications?
Scrapfly states SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 company-wide, with a HIPAA BAA on Custom plans and a GDPR DPA on paid plans. CreateOS is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, with reports available under NDA.
How is Scrapfly's browser billed?
In credits: 1 credit per 30 seconds plus bandwidth at 7 credits per MB datacenter or 52 per MB residential, with a 5-credit minimum per session. The dollar value of a credit varies by plan. CreateOS bills dollars per second for vCPU, memory and storage.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
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