Agent Sandbox vs exe.dev

exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Agent Sandbox runs containers. exe.dev runs full VMs.

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Agent Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$10 credit with a Google sign-in
Max session
Not listed

exe.dev

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Agent Sandbox
exe.dev
Storage
Agent Sandbox: $0.0005 per MB for output files
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
Agent Sandbox: Per second
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Agent Sandbox: Container
exe.dev: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Included
Storage
Agent Sandbox: $0.0005 per MB for output files
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
Agent Sandbox: Per second
exe.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Idle stop
Agent Sandbox: After 5 minutes
exe.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Agent Sandbox: Container
exe.dev: Full VM
GPU
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Snapshots
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Pause and resume
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Agent Sandbox: Python
exe.dev: Not listed
Integrations
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Claude Code

Trust

License
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
BYOC
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Agent Sandbox
exe.dev
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: $0.053
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: $0.105
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: $0.210

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Agent Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.

exe.dev fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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