ProvidersChecked 2026-10-28
Full VMs with memory-and-disk snapshots, branched into parallel copies, billed in MCUs.
Short answer: One always-on personal agent (2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 20 GiB) costs about $63.00 a month here, the 7th cheapest of the 11 providers that run it as described. The AI model adds about $14.70 a month on top (GLM 5.3, 30 requests a day at 40k tokens each, median zero-retention price; from $6.84 at the cheapest host). Fits well: Full VMs with Docker-in-Docker, systemd, root and FUSE, for a workload that needs a normal server.
Morph Cloud sells devboxes and lower-level instances: full virtual machines that can run Docker-in-Docker, a local Kubernetes cluster or a self-hosted database.
Its distinctive primitive is the snapshot: an immutable copy of memory and disk that can boot a new instance with running processes, or branch into many copies for fan-out.
| Who it is for | Teams running parallel agent environments, RL rollouts or test fan-out, and developers who want a cloud devbox with a dashboard. |
|---|---|
| Isolation | Full virtual machine, with Docker-in-Docker, systemd and root documented. FUSE is available; nested virtualisation and other guest operating systems are experimental. |
| Sizes | Resources are chosen at creation: vCPU, memory and disk size. No complete size catalogue, GPU statement, region list or data-residency commitment is published. |
| A personal agent here | About $63.00 a month for one always-on 2 vCPU / 4 GiB machine (2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 20 GiB), before the AI model. Change the numbers |
| Recommended in | Not one of the picks in any use-case guide. |
Our reading of the sourced material on this page, not a provider claim.
| Model | Prepaid MCUs with optional monthly plans that include an allocation. |
|---|---|
| Meter | One MCU covers 1 vCPU-hour, 4 GB RAM-hours, 16 GB disk-hours or 5 TB snapshot-hours. The rate is the maximum of those dimensions, at $0.05 per MCU-hour. |
| While stopped | A paused instance bills only for the snapshot taken. A stopped instance is deleted, so its own disk is not a cheap parked state. |
| Plan fee | Developer $0, Team $40 and Scale $250 a month, including 0, 1,000 and 7,500 MCUs. |
| Minimum | No published minimum duration. The signup docs promise 300 free compute hours a month; the pricing page shows 0 MCUs and asks you to buy. |
How Morph lets you try before paying is on Trials and free tiers.
| Dashboard | A devbox dashboard can create a machine from a template or snapshot and open it in VS Code. |
|---|---|
| Without code | A devbox can be created without API code, but setup asks for an SDK or CLI and an API key. |
| Signup | An invite is mentioned in the signup docs; card requirement and waitlist status are not published. |
| Docs and support | Documentation covers devboxes, instances, snapshots, volumes and agent tokens. No independent status page was verified. |
Every capability the guide checks, with the catch where Morph's version falls short. Compare all providers
From the profile's company section: the legal entity, who funds it, and what a buyer can check before signing.
Morph Labs, Inc., at a San Francisco address. The state of incorporation is not published.
“2565 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA” cloud.morph.so docs-confirmed
2023, by Jesse Han, per Tracxn. Christian Szegedy is reported as chief scientist and a seed investor.
“founded in 2023 by Jesse Han” tracxn.com third-party
Disputed: one source reports a $5.75M Khosla-led seed, another says no funding has been raised.
“Morph Labs has not raised any funding yet.” tracxn.com third-party
About 9–11, an aggregator estimate for 2026. No company-confirmed figure.
“~9-11 employees (as of 2026)” rl-list.com third-party
Status page reports 100% for the Cloud API over its 90-day chart. No numeric SLA is published.
“100% uptime” status.cloud.morph.so docs-confirmed
No verified SOC 2 for Morph Labs, Inc. The Delve trust portal sometimes cited for it belongs to AutoInfra.
“AutoInfra, Inc. SOC 2 Type 2 Report 2025” trust.delve.co third-party
Shown as the research found them. A contradiction means the provider's own pages disagree; an open question means the answer is not published.
Signup docs promise 300 free compute hours a month on the $0 Developer plan; the pricing page lists 0 MCUs and says to purchase MCUs to use compute.
The stop API releases the instance and its resources; only a separately retained snapshot survives.
Whether snapshots bill allocated or stored bytes, and how compression and deduplication count, is not stated.
Morph Volumes is an S3-compatible product accessed through a gateway and CLI, distinct from an attached disk or EFS mount.
Host locations, data residency and GPU availability were not confirmed in primary material.
List-price illustrations from the calculator, not quotes. Prices checked 29 October 2026.
A · 1,000 short tasks
$16.67
2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 10 GiB (plan: Developer)
B · One always-on box
$136.00
4 vCPU / 8 GiB / 50 GiB (plan: Team)
C · Three hours a day
$9.15
2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 20 GiB (plan: Developer)