CreateOS Sandbox vs Tencent Cloud Studio
Tencent Cloud Studio is built for classrooms and GPU experiments in a browser IDE, billed in CNY. CreateOS Sandbox is built for software that creates sandboxes by API to run agent or untrusted code, with a published isolation model and outbound rules.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. Tencent Cloud Studio 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
Tencent Cloud Studio
Tencent Cloud Studio charges pay-as-you-go from CNY 0.1 per hour for 1 core / 2G to CNY 7 per hour for 64 cores / 128G, and GPU from CNY 1.2 per hour (T4) to CNY 14 per hour (A800), as of 17 October 2026.
Where CreateOS Sandbox Fits Better
What CreateOS Sandbox brings to this matchup, with a plain note on where Tencent Cloud Studio has the edge.
A create and exec API with SDKs; Tencent Cloud Studio publishes no sandbox API on the pages read.
Documented isolation (Firecracker micro-VM) and host-enforced egress rules; neither is published for Cloud Studio.
Prices in USD per vCPU-hour and GiB-hour, with English documentation.
Where Tencent Cloud Studio is strong
Cloud Studio offers very cheap, switchable CPU and GPU workspaces up to an A800 in a ready web IDE, with classroom tooling the vendor says has run 10,000-person concurrent training sessions across universities.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- Your code creates and destroys environments programmatically.
- You need a documented isolation boundary for untrusted code.
Pick Tencent Cloud Studio if
- You teach AI courses or run hackathons in China and need a browser IDE for large cohorts.
- You need GPUs such as T4, V100, A10, L40 or A800.
- Your team pays in CNY.
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 | Tencent Cloud Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Isolation | Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel | Not published; product page says workspaces include an OS, containers and CUDA |
| What persists | Disk stays until you destroy the sandbox; pause also saves memory and CPU state | Files saved persistently; compute released about 10 minutes after all IDE tabs close |
| Create by API | Yes: REST API, six SDKs (TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, C#, Java), CLI and MCP server | Not published; web IDE with CodeBuddy assistant |
| 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 | Not published; product page mentions built-in public network |
| Largest size | 8 vCPU / 16 GB on Enterprise; 8 / 8 on Pro, 4 / 4 on Beginner, 1 / 1 on Free | CPU 64 cores / 128G; GPU A800 spec with 124 cores, 1929G RAM, 80G VRAM |
| Billing | Per second: $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour, $0.01159025 per GiB-hour, storage $0.0001584 per GB-hour | Machine-hours in CNY, prepaid packs or pay-as-you-go hourly |
| Self-host | Enterprise only, onboarded by our team | Not published |
| Built for | Sandboxes created by API for agent and untrusted code | Education, AI training labs and building AI apps from templates |
Common Questions
Does Tencent Cloud Studio have GPUs that CreateOS lacks?
Yes. Cloud Studio workspaces can switch to T4, V100, A10, L40 or A800 GPUs, priced from CNY 1.2 to CNY 14 per hour. CreateOS Sandbox offers no GPU shapes, so GPU training or inference belongs on a service like Cloud Studio.
Can a program create Tencent Cloud Studio workspaces on demand?
Tencent does not publish a create or exec API for Cloud Studio on the pages read; it is used through the web IDE. CreateOS sandboxes are created, run and destroyed from REST, the CLI, the MCP server or SDKs in six languages.
When does Tencent Cloud Studio stop billing?
Cloud Studio releases compute about 10 minutes after all IDE tabs close, and billing runs while compute is held. CreateOS bills per second while a sandbox runs; pausing stops vCPU billing while memory and storage are still charged.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
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