How much does Containarium cost?

$20 USD per seat per month. A seat is one user account and buys a fixed allowance on shared instances: 2 vCPU (1 guaranteed, up to 2 when the host has spare capacity), 4 GiB of RAM, 20 GB of disk and 100 GB of transfer per month, for one box. There is no per-second meter and no usage bill.

How does a seat compare with the same spec on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure?

On public on-demand list prices, the nearest 4 GiB instance with a 20 GB disk, a public IPv4 address and 100 GB of monthly egress is about $35.62 on AWS, $41.15 on Google Cloud and $36.42 on Azure, against $20 for a seat. Those are dedicated, always-on VMs with 2 guaranteed vCPUs; a seat is a shared-instance allowance with 1 guaranteed vCPU and bursts to 2, and it sleeps when idle.

What about teams, dedicated hardware or bringing our own cloud?

Enterprise, dedicated instances and bring-your-own-cloud are priced by conversation. Email sales@containarium.dev.

Pricing · launch pricing

One price. No usage bill.

A seat is one user account. It buys a fixed allowance of CPU, RAM, disk and bandwidth. We do not meter by the second and we do not charge for going over.

Seat

$20 / seat / month

2 vCPU (1 guaranteed, bursts to 2 when the host has capacity) · 4 GiB RAM
20 GB disk
100 GB transfer per month
One box per seat, with SSH, MCP and the dashboard
Idle boxes sleep, which is how the price stays flat

Get a seat

USD, billed monthly per seat.

The same spec elsewhere

What 4 GiB, 20 GB and 100 GB of transfer costs on the big three

This is not a like-for-like fight, and we would rather say so. A hyperscaler VM is a dedicated, always-on machine with 2 guaranteed vCPUs. A seat is a share of an instance: 1 vCPU is guaranteed, a second is available when the host has spare capacity, and the box sleeps when idle. If you need a dedicated machine running around the clock, buy one. If you need a developer or agent box that costs the same every month, this is the number.

Option	Shape	VM	20 GB disk	100 GB egress	Public IPv4	Total
Containarium seat	2 vCPU (1 guaranteed) · 4 GiB	included	included	included	included	$20.00 / mo
AWS · t3.medium	2 vCPU · 4 GiB	$30.37 / mo	$1.60	$0.00	$3.65	$35.62 / mo
Google Cloud · e2-medium	2 vCPU · 4 GiB	$24.46 / mo	$2.00	$11.04	$3.65	$41.15 / mo
Azure · B2s	2 vCPU · 4 GiB	$30.37 / mo	$2.40	$0.00	$3.65	$36.42 / mo

Public on-demand list prices, Linux, read 18 October 2026, at 730 hours per month. One US region each: AWS us-east-1 (t3.medium, gp3 disk, 100 GB of monthly egress free), Google Cloud us-central1 (e2-medium, pd-balanced disk, premium-tier egress at $0.12 per GiB after the first GiB), Azure East US (B2s, Standard SSD E4 at 32 GiB, 100 GB of monthly egress free). Each cloud's $0.005-per-hour public IPv4 charge is included. No reserved, committed-use, sustained-use, spot or free-trial discounts are applied on any side, and nothing is added for support, backups or monitoring. Disk is the smallest size that covers 20 GB. Prices change: check AWS, Google Cloud and Azure against ours.

Teams, dedicated hardware, your own cloud

Need an isolated instance for your organization, to run on your own cloud account, or to cut an existing cloud bill? Those are priced by conversation because the right answer depends on your fleet.

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Questions

Is there overage or a usage bill?

No. The seat price is the whole price for the allowance. We do not meter CPU-seconds or charge for going over; the allowance is a ceiling, not a starting point.

Why is a seat cheaper than a cloud VM?

Seats share instances and idle boxes sleep, so we pack many more boxes onto the same hardware than a dedicated VM allows. You get less than a dedicated machine, and you pay less for it. Pick on the shape you need.

Why is it called launch pricing?

The product is young and the number may move as we learn what people run.