Citadea Core-VM
Firecracker micro-VMs in under 50 ms
Compute that appears in milliseconds and disappears when you are done — with the isolation of a virtual machine and the speed of a container.
Lightweight Firecracker-based micro-VMs designed for fully ephemeral, instantly scalable compute. VM-grade isolation at container speed, billed by the second, with a warm pool that absorbs spikes.
Built on Firecracker, not legacy hypervisors
Core-VM runs each workload in a Firecracker micro-VM on KVM, giving you hardware-level tenant isolation without the weight of a traditional VM. A warm pool keeps boot times under 50 ms so bursty and serverless workloads feel instant.
Priced by the second, networked with eBPF
You pay for the seconds you use. Networking is eBPF/Cilium-based for fast, programmable, observable connectivity, and images are OCI/Docker-compatible so your existing build pipeline just works.
Compared to Modal, AWS Lambda or generic OVH VPS.
What's included
- Boot in under 50 ms
- Firecracker hypervisor (KVM)
- OCI / Docker-compatible images
- Hardware-level tenant isolation
- Warm VM pool
- Per-second billing
Technical specs
- Dedicated vCPUs
- ECC RAM
- Local NVMe storage
- eBPF / Cilium networking
Quickstart
$ citadea core-vm create --image debian-12 --tier dev