Agent37 Cloud vs Shellbox

Agent37 Cloud costs $0.0011 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. Agent37 Cloud runs gVisor and has no session limit. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Agent37 Cloud

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$5 starter credit, one time
Max session
No limit

Shellbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Agent37 Cloud
Shellbox
vCPU, per hour
Agent37 Cloud: $0.0011
Shellbox: $0.01
RAM, per GiB-hour
Agent37 Cloud: $0.00096
Shellbox: Included
Storage
Agent37 Cloud: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
Billing
Agent37 Cloud: Per second
Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Agent37 Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Agent37 Cloud: Up to 200
Shellbox: Up to 16
Isolation
Agent37 Cloud: gVisor
Shellbox: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Agent37 Cloud: $0.0011
Shellbox: $0.01
RAM, per GiB-hour
Agent37 Cloud: $0.00096
Shellbox: Included
Storage
Agent37 Cloud: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
Free tier
Agent37 Cloud: $5 starter credit, one time
Shellbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
Agent37 Cloud: Pay as you go
Shellbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Agent37 Cloud: Per second
Shellbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Agent37 Cloud: No limit
Shellbox: No limit
Idle stop
Agent37 Cloud: Not listed
Shellbox: After 2 minutes
Largest sandbox
Agent37 Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Agent37 Cloud: Up to 200
Shellbox: Up to 16

Platform

Isolation
Agent37 Cloud: gVisor
Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Agent37 Cloud: Not listed
Shellbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Agent37 Cloud:
Shellbox:
Pause and resume
Agent37 Cloud:
Shellbox:

Developer

SDKs
Agent37 Cloud: Not listed
Shellbox: Not listed
Integrations
Agent37 Cloud: Claude Code
Shellbox: Claude Code

Trust

License
Agent37 Cloud: Not listed
Shellbox: Not listed
BYOC
Agent37 Cloud: Not listed
Shellbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Agent37 Cloud
Shellbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Agent37 Cloud: $0.003
Shellbox: $0.010
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Agent37 Cloud: $0.006
Shellbox: $0.020
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Agent37 Cloud: $0.012
Shellbox: $0.040

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Agent37 Cloud fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.006 against $0.020 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2.

Shellbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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