Provider comparison

GlobalStacks vs Freestyle

Freestyle offers low-cost VM-style sandboxes for AI app builders. GlobalStacks is for teams that want the sandbox layer to run across their own fleet.

Freestyle

When Freestyle fits

Best fit: AI app builders and products that need persistent full VMs at low hosted CPU rates.
Pricing: $0.04032 per vCPU-hour, $0.0129 per GiB memory-hour, and $0.000086 per GiB storage-hour.
GPU: No public GPU sandbox meter.
Important tradeoff: For purely hosted CPU-heavy VM workloads, Freestyle can have lower public CPU rates.

GlobalStacks

When to choose GlobalStacks

Choose GlobalStacks when your team has existing hosts, wants cluster-level scheduling, and needs a control plane for sandbox runtimes, mesh networking, and volumes across owned machines.

Self-hosted pricing

$1 per self-hosted cluster per month, plus the infrastructure you already operate.

Managed pricing

Managed clusters use transparent usage meters: $0.0504 per vCPU-hour, $0.0162 per GiB memory-hour, $0.000108 per GiB storage-hour, H100 at $3.95 per GPU-hour, and RTX PRO 6000 at $3.03 per GPU-hour where available.

Decision guide

Pick the model that matches your workload.

Choose GlobalStacks when sandbox infrastructure needs to run across your own hosts, private networks, storage systems, and regional capacity choices. Self-hosted clusters keep the platform fee low while your team controls the underlying machines.

Use managed GlobalStacks clusters when you want the same control-plane model without operating the capacity yourself.

Pricing reviewed June 14, 2026. Source: Freestyle pricing.

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