Three workloads, priced at list rates

A · 1,000 short tasks

≈ $1.09 a month

2 vCPU / 4 GiB, 4 GB disk (the entry shape), deleted after each task

• Compute1,000 × 10 min × (2 × $0.00001826 + 4 × $0.00001598)$1.00
• Disk1,000 × 10 min × 4 GB × $0.00000205$0.08

• The requested shape exists exactly, so no substitution is needed.
• Boot and provisioning time is not billed; transitional states such as starting and stopping are billed at the full rate.
• Excludes model tokens, which usually dominate the cost of a ten-minute agent task.

B · One always-on box

≈ $10.60 or $30.10 a month

The requested 4 vCPU / 8 GiB / 50 GB box does not exist as a single shape.

• 4 vCPU / 8 GB, 20 GB disk (the disk cap on this shape)730 h × (4 × $0.0011 + 8 × $0.00096) + 20 × $0.09$10.60
• 4 vCPU / 32 GB, 50 GB disk (the nearest shape that allows 50 GB)730 h × (4 × $0.0011 + 32 × $0.00096) + 50 × $0.09$30.10

• A VM, needed for Docker or /dev/kvm, multiplies compute by 2.5: about $23.85 or $68.59.
• Both figures match the vendor's own shape table plus disk at $0.09/GB-month.

50 GB of disk forces the 4 vCPU / 32 GB shape. If 20 GB is enough, the same CPU and RAM cost a third as much.

C · Three hours a day

≈ $1.61 or $2.86 a month

The requested 2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 20 GB box does not exist: that shape caps disk at 12 GB.

• 2 vCPU / 4 GB, 12 GB disk90 h × $0.00604 + 12 × $0.09 × (720/730)$1.61
• 4 vCPU / 8 GB, 20 GB disk90 h × $0.01208 + 20 × $0.09 × (720/730)$2.86

• A 30-day month is 720 hours, so disk is prorated over 720/730 of a month.
• At 90 awake hours, disk is two-thirds of the bill in the first option.
• Leaving the same box running all month instead would cost about $5.40.

20 GB is not orderable with 2 vCPU. The second line buys more CPU and RAM than asked to get the disk.

A · 1,000 short tasks

$27.60

2 vCPU / 4 GiB, deleted after each task

• Active compute4 GB × 600,000 s × $0.0000115$27.60

• Assumes immediate deletion, so no snapshot or volume storage.
• The 4 GB / 2 vCPU mapping is from a secondary source; CPU scales with memory.

B · One always-on box

$247.78

4 vCPU / 8 GiB, 50 GB volume, 730 h

• Active compute8 GB × 2,628,000 s × $0.0000115$241.78
• Volume50 GB × $0.12$6.00

• A 50 GB volume is assumed because the local writable filesystem uses RAM.
• Images and retained snapshots are extra.

C · Three hours a day

$17.30 plus snapshot storage

4 vCPU / 8 GiB, 20 GB volume, 90 active hours, 630 standby

• Active compute4 GB × 324,000 s × $0.0000115$14.90
• Volume20 GB × $0.12$2.40

• Standby snapshot storage adds S × $0.20 × 630/730, where S is billable GB and is not published.
• Retaining a sandbox for the month needs a tier above free, which enforces a TTL.

A · 1,000 short tasks

$20 a month (the plan floor)

small (2 vCPU / 4 GB / 51 GB), deleted after each task

• Compute1,000 × 600 s × $0.018/h ÷ 3,600$3.00
• Bill$20 plan; included time absorbs it$20.00

• The size exists exactly, so no substitution is needed.
• The binding constraint is starts, not money: 33 creates a day is inside the 200-a-day limit.

All 1,000 tasks in one day would hit the start limit: starts 201–600 cost $22 from the wallet, and 601 fails.

B · One always-on box

$26.28 a month

default (4 vCPU / 8 GB / 51 GB), 730 h

• Compute730 × $0.036$26.28
• Plan plus wallet$20 plan + $6.28 overage$26.28

• The first month costs $35 cash because the minimum wallet top-up is $15, leaving $8.72 in the wallet.
• Auto-stop must be turned off, or the box stops after one hour.

C · Three hours a day

$1.62 of usage, billed at $20

small (2 vCPU / 4 GB / 51 GB), 90 running hours

• Compute90 × $0.018$1.62
• Stopped time630 h at $0$0.00

• The 51 GB disk covers the 20 GB ask, so this is an exact fit.
• The disk is kept free for 14 days after a stop; a longer gap needs a saved snapshot.

A · 1,000 short tasks

≈ $25.03 or $34.37 a month

2 vCPU / 8 GiB (the nearest size), 4 GiB resident, 2 GiB written, deleted after each task

• vCPU2 × $0.047 × 166.67 h$15.67
• RAM at 4 GiB resident4 × $0.014 × 166.67 h$9.33
• Disk2 × $0.000096 × 166.67 h$0.03

• If a task fills the shape at 8 GiB resident, the same work costs $34.37.
• RAM is billed on what the machine holds, so the 8 GiB size does not force an 8 GiB bill.

B · One always-on box

≈ $222.50 or $304.26 a month

4 vCPU / 16 GiB (the only 4 vCPU size), 8 GiB or 16 GiB resident, 50 GiB written

• vCPU4 × $0.047 × 730$137.24
• RAM at 8 GiB resident8 × $0.014 × 730$81.76
• RAM at 16 GiB resident16 × $0.014 × 730$163.52
• Disk50 × $0.000096 × 730$3.50

• 8 GiB is a working set, not a purchase: the 4 vCPU shape comes with 16 GiB and bills what it holds.
• Sleeping 8 hours a day instead of running always: about $149.60 at 8 GiB resident.

C · Three hours a day

≈ $14.88 or $19.92 a month

2 vCPU / 8 GiB, 4 GiB or 8 GiB resident, 20 GiB written, 90 running hours in a 720-hour month

• Running, 90 h at 4 GiB90 × (2 × $0.047 + 4 × $0.014 + 20 × $0.000096)$13.67
• Running, 90 h at 8 GiB90 × (2 × $0.047 + 8 × $0.014 + 20 × $0.000096)$18.71
• Stopped, 630 h630 × 20 × $0.000096$1.21

• A 30-day month is 720 hours, so 630 hours are stopped.
• Leaving it in standby instead of stopping is the expensive mistake: about $50.16 at 4 GiB, because RAM keeps billing.
• Relying on the 4-hour idle hibernate instead of stopping: about $32.88.

A · 1,000 short tasks

$27.60, or nothing against the Hobby credit

2 vCPU / 4 GiB, deleted after each task

• Compute166.67 h × (2 × $0.0504 + 4 × $0.0162)$27.60

• Against an unused $100 Hobby credit the cash due is $0, leaving $72.40 of credit.
• On Pro the same usage is $150 of plan fee plus $27.60.

B · One always-on box

$241.78 of compute, not a feasible all-in quote

4 vCPU / 8 GiB / 50 GiB, 730 h

• Compute730 × (4 × $0.0504 + 8 × $0.0162)$241.78

• Pro's continuous-runtime limit is 24 hours, so an uninterrupted 730-hour session is not possible.
• 50 GiB exceeds the 20 GiB of included Pro disk, so a custom quote is needed.

This workload cannot be bought as specified: it breaks both the session limit and the disk allowance.

C · Three hours a day

$164.90 including the Pro plan fee

2 vCPU / 4 GiB, 90 running hours, 630 paused hours

• Compute90 × (2 × $0.0504 + 4 × $0.0162)$14.90
• Pro plan feemonthly$150.00

• Paused time has no compute charge, and pause/resume resets the continuous-runtime clock.
• Assumes each daily session is explicitly paused rather than left running.

A · 1,000 short tasks

$3.20 of usage, billed at $20 on Pro

2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 20 GiB disk, deleted after each task (Pro or above)

• vCPU2 × $0.004 × 166.67 h$1.33
• Memory4 × $0.00225 × 166.67 h$1.50
• Storage20 × $0.00011 × 166.67 h$0.37

• The $20 plan is also $20 of credit, so the bill is the plan price.
• On Free the 2/4 size does not exist; the nearest 4/8 would be $5.67 of usage, billed at $0.

The free plan is 4 vCPU / 8 GiB only, so this workload cannot run there as specified.

B · One always-on box

$28.84 a month

4 vCPU / 8 GiB / 50 GiB, 730 h

• vCPU4 × $0.004 × 730$11.68
• Memory8 × $0.00225 × 730$13.14
• Storage50 × $0.00011 × 730$4.02

• The vendor's calculator shows $24.82 because it leaves storage out of the total.
• Always-on needs the idle pause turned off, which paid plans allow.

C · Three hours a day

$3.14 of usage, billed at $20 on Pro

2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 20 GiB, 90 running hours

• vCPU2 × $0.004 × 90$0.72
• Memory4 × $0.00225 × 90$0.81
• Storage, all month20 × $0.00011 × 730$1.61

• On Free the nearest size would be $4.67 of usage, billed at $0.
• A free machine pauses itself after 30 idle minutes and cannot run more than 8 hours continuously.

A · 1,000 short tasks

$19 a month (the plan floor)

Small (2 vCPU / 4 GB / 5 GB), deleted after each task

• Compute1,000 × (10/60) h × $0.0162$2.70
• Bill$19 plan; included usage absorbs it$19.00

• The size exists exactly, so no substitution is needed.
• Pro allows 400 starts a day and 24 a minute, so 1,000 tasks cannot all run in one day.

B · One always-on box

$27.85 or $47.30 a month

No size is 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 50 GB: Medium has 20 GB of disk, Large has 50 GB but 8 vCPU.

• Medium + a 30 GB volume0.0324 × 730 + 0.14 × 30$27.85
• Large, no volume0.0648 × 730$47.30

• Option one matches the CPU and RAM exactly and splits the disk across two filesystems.
• Volumes bill on used space, not allocated size.

Both options over-deliver something: the first adds a volume, the second doubles CPU and RAM to get 50 GB of disk.

C · Three hours a day

$19 a month either way

No size is 2 vCPU with 20 GB of disk.

• Small + a 15 GB volume0.0162 × 90 + 0.14 × 15$3.56
• Medium, no volume0.0324 × 90$2.92

• Both are under the $19 floor, so the choice is about disk layout, not money.
• A 30-day month is 720 hours; 90 of them are running.
• Stopped here means killed, which deletes the sandbox disk: keep anything you need on the volume.

Pausing instead of stopping keeps the whole disk and memory, at no published storage charge.

A · 1,000 short tasks

$16.67

2 vCPU / 4 GiB, disk under 32 GiB, deleted after each task

• MCUs166.67 h × max(2, 4/4, disk/16) = 333.33 MCU333.33
• Cost333.33 × $0.05$16.67

• Retained snapshots are excluded; a larger disk raises the MCU count.
• The requested shape can be provisioned exactly.

B · One always-on box

$146.00

4 vCPU / 8 GiB / 50 GiB, 730 h

• MCUs730 h × max(4, 8/4, 50/16) = 2,920 MCU2,920
• Cost2,920 × $0.05$146.00

• The disk dimension sets the rate at 4 MCU/hour.
• A plan allocation would discount this, but list-rate usage is shown.

C · Three hours a day

$9.15

2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 20 GiB, 90 running hours, 630 paused

• Running90 × 2 MCU × $0.05$9.00
• Paused snapshot24 GB × 630 h × $0.00001$0.15

• Paused billing is charged on the snapshot, not on the instance.
• The snapshot's billable size is an assumption; actual counting is not published.

A · 1,000 short tasks

$5.21 to $13.33 a month

2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 4 GiB disk, deleted after each task

• Memory166.67 h × 4 GiB × $0.0075$5.00
• CPU at the 50-millicore floor0.05 × 166.67 h × $0.025$0.21
• CPU fully busy2 × 166.67 h × $0.025$8.33

• Disk under 10 GiB is included while running, and deletion ends the charge.
• The range exists because per-task CPU use is not published; the floor sets the bill for a task that mostly waits.

B · One always-on box

$48.15 to $120.24 a month

4 vCPU / 8 GiB / 50 GiB, 730 h, always on

• Memory8 × 730 × $0.0075$43.80
• CPU at the floor0.05 × 730 × $0.025$0.91
• CPU fully busy4 × 730 × $0.025$73.00
• Disk past the included 10 GiB(53.7 − 10.7) GB × $0.08$3.44

• Always-on needs persistent: true or idlePauseSeconds: 0; otherwise the box pauses after 5 idle minutes.
• Disk is an upper bound: only blocks the disk alone holds are billed, so a mostly empty disk costs less.

C · Three hours a day

$4.42 to $8.81 a month

2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 20 GiB, 90 running hours in a 720-hour month, stopped otherwise

• Running, at the floor0.05 × 90 × $0.025 + 4 × 90 × $0.0075$2.81
• Running, fully busy2 × 90 × $0.025 + 4 × 90 × $0.0075$7.20
• Stopped disk21.5 GB × $0.08 × 630/720$1.50

• A 30-day month is 720 hours, so 630 hours are stopped.
• Pausing instead keeps memory and costs about $4.72 to $9.11.

A · 1,000 short tasks

$20 a month (the plan floor)

small (2 vCPU / 4 GB / 12 GB), deleted after each task

• Usage1,000 × 600 s × $0.018/h ÷ 3,600$3.00
• Bill$20 plan; $3 of included time used$20.00

• There is no free tier, so the plan price is the bill for any workload this small.
• 1,000 creates is about 33 a day, inside the $20 plan's 200-a-day start limit.

B · One always-on box

$40 cash, of which $26.28 is used

default (4 vCPU / 8 GB / 50 GB), 730 h

• Usage730 × $0.036$26.28
• Cash$20 plan + one $20 pack$40.00

• The unused $13.72 carries forward, because packs never expire.
• Plan time does not roll over; only packs do.

C · Three hours a day

$20 a month (the plan floor)

small (2 vCPU / 4 GB / 12 GB), 90 running hours

• Usage90 × $0.018$1.62
• Billabsorbed by the $20 plan$20.00

• The nearest size above the ask, default, uses $3.24 and is also inside the plan.
• Stopped hours are free, and an idle box pauses itself after 30 minutes on the $20 plan.

No 20 GB size exists: disk is fixed per size at 12 GB or 50 GB.

A · 1,000 short tasks

$14.58 to $65.92

8-vCPU Sprite, 4 GB average memory, no retained disk, deleted after each task

• Memory166.67 h × 4 GB × $0.021875$14.58
• CPU at zero to full use166.67 h × 0–8 × $0.0385$0–$51.33

• The requested 2 vCPU / 4 GiB shape cannot be reserved; CPU is measured up to the 8-vCPU ceiling.
• Actual storage writes and task time are excluded.

B · One always-on box

$153.67 to $378.51

8-vCPU Sprite, 8 GB average memory, 50 GB retained, 730 h

• Memory730 × 8 × $0.021875$127.75
• CPU at zero to full use730 × 0–8 × $0.0385$0–$224.84
• Storage, hot plus cold730 × 50 × ($0.000683 + $0.000027)$25.92

• An always-on workload must actively prevent idle sleep.
• Whether hot and cold storage apply to the same bytes is not unambiguous in the provider's wording.

C · Three hours a day

$9.49 to $37.21

8-vCPU Sprite, 4 GB average memory, 20 GB retained, 90 active hours

• Memory90 × 4 × $0.021875$7.88
• CPU at zero to full use90 × 0–8 × $0.0385$0–$27.72
• Storage, hot plus cold90 × 20 × $0.000683 + 720 × 20 × $0.000027$1.62

• Idle time is compute-free, but the disk keeps billing while it exists.
• Warm suspension keeps memory frozen; a longer idle period drops it and the next wake starts processes fresh.

A · 1,000 short tasks

$18.40 before credit

2 vCPU / 4 GB, 10% average CPU, deleted after each task

• Memory4 × 166.67 h × $0.0212$14.13
• Active CPU at 10%2 × 166.67 h × 0.10 × $0.128$4.27

• An otherwise unused $20 Pro credit covers this, but the $20 platform fee remains.
• Opt out of persistence, or deleting a sandbox leaves billable snapshots.

B · One always-on box

$161.18 before credit, and not a continuous session

4 vCPU / 8 GB, 10% average CPU, 730 running-equivalent hours

• Memory8 × 730 × $0.0212$123.81
• Active CPU at 10%4 × 730 × 0.10 × $0.128$37.38

• A single session cannot exceed 24 hours on Pro, so 730 hours needs restarts and snapshots.
• 50 GiB is not a configurable disk: the standard filesystem is 64 GB, and drives are billed on used data.

The always-on workload breaks the 24-hour per-session limit, so this is a running-equivalent estimate rather than a feasible single sandbox.

C · Three hours a day

$9.94 before credit

2 vCPU / 4 GB, 10% average CPU, 90 running hours, stopped otherwise

• Memory4 × 90 × $0.0212$7.63
• Active CPU at 10%2 × 90 × 0.10 × $0.128$2.30

• A 20 GB drive holding 20 GB of data for the month adds about $1.00 plus reads and writes.
• Retaining the filesystem as snapshots adds storage; 30 stops can create 30 snapshots.