CreateOS Sandbox vs Surfsky
Surfsky is the specialist choice for sites with aggressive bot defences: fingerprints, human emulation and CAPTCHA solving come on every plan, with up to 400 persistent profiles. CreateOS Sandbox is the general choice for running agent code, where isolation, regions and session rules are all published.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. Surfsky 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
Surfsky
Browser hours cost $0.35 on pay as you go, $0.30 on Starter ($29/month), $0.25 on Base ($99/month) and $0.20 on Advanced ($199/month), billed per minute, with premium proxy at $7 to $10/GB, as of 17 October 2026.
Where CreateOS Sandbox Fits Better
What CreateOS Sandbox brings to this matchup, with a plain note on where Surfsky has the edge.
Isolation is documented: every sandbox is its own Firecracker micro-VM.
You choose where code runs, eu or us, per sandbox.
Idle sandboxes can auto-pause on a timer you set, from 60 seconds to 24 hours.
Where Surfsky is strong
Anti-detect fingerprints, human emulation and CAPTCHA solving come on every plan, along with many persistent profiles for running separate accounts.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- Your agent runs code rather than driving a fingerprinted browser.
- You need published isolation, regions and session rules.
- You want pause and fork for long agent tasks.
Pick Surfsky if
- You automate sites that aggressively block bots.
- You need long-lived browser identities across many accounts.
- You want to bring your own proxy at no extra charge.
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 | Surfsky |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Anti-detect Chrome over CDP or a REST request-response mode |
| 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 | Not published; sessions run until closed or timed out |
| Run arbitrary code | Yes: exec, shell, files and managed processes; devbox:1 ships Python 3.12, Node.js 24, Go, Rust and Docker | Browser automation from CDP clients; general code execution 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 | Premium proxy $7 to $10/GB by plan; bring-your-own proxy included; 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 | Per browser-hour, billed per minute: $0.35 (pay as you go) down to $0.20 (Advanced, $199/mo) |
| Pause and resume | Pause saves disk, memory and CPU state; vCPU stops billing, memory and storage still bill | Persistent profiles (Starter 10, Base 100, Advanced 400) keep logins |
| Interfaces | SDKs in TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, C# and Java (all but TypeScript pre-1.0), CLI, MCP server, REST API | Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, Scrapy and chromedp over CDP; REST API; SDKs (languages not listed) |
Common Questions
Does Surfsky solve CAPTCHAs?
Yes. CAPTCHA solving is included on every plan, along with fingerprints and human emulation. CreateOS Sandbox lists no CAPTCHA or anti-detect features; it provides a Linux VM, with Chrome in the desktop:1 image.
How much does a Surfsky browser hour cost?
$0.35 on pay as you go, dropping to $0.30, $0.25 and $0.20 on the $29, $99 and $199 monthly plans, billed per minute and rounded up. Premium proxy adds $7 to $10 per GB, and your own proxy is included.
Where does Surfsky run its browsers?
Its regions are not published. CreateOS Sandbox runs in two managed regions, eu and us, and you choose one with the region field when you create a sandbox.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
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