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Categories/DevOps & CI/CD/Smol Machines
Smol Machines

Smol Machines

Run fast hardware-isolated Linux microVMs across local environments and cloud infrastructure

Pricing model

Free Tier

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

You can use Smol Machines to build, test, and run isolated Linux microVMs across your local workstation and cloud environments. It provides a portable machine artifact that behaves consistently on macOS, Windows, and Linux servers without code alterations. With fast sub-200 millisecond startup times and dedicated guest kernels, you can securely execute untrusted code, run sandboxed reinforcement learning experiments, and host persistent developer workspaces. The system uses elastic memory allocation so you only consume the resources your active processes require.

What Smol Machines does

Provision Linux microVMs through a REST APIFork running virtual machine instances into batch episodesPackage virtual machines into portable artifactsExecute terminal commands inside isolated guest kernelsConfigure network access rules for individual machinesPersist files and packages across machine execution sessionsSub-200 millisecond virtual machine boot timesHardware isolation with dedicated guest kernelsPortable .smolmachine artifacts across local and cloud environmentsElastic memory commitment using virtio balloonNative support for macOS, Linux, and Windows hypervisorsVulkan and CUDA GPU passthrough supportEmbedded VMM linked directly into binary with no background daemon

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Free tier

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