Agent Sandbox vs Shellbox
Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. Agent Sandbox runs containers. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Agent Sandbox
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- Max session
- Not listed
Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Agent Sandbox
Shellbox
- Storage
- Agent Sandbox: $0.0005/MB for output files
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Billing
- Agent Sandbox: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Idle stop
- Agent Sandbox: After 5 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Isolation
- Agent Sandbox: Container
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Agent Sandboxagentsandbox
Shellboxshellbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- Agent Sandbox: $0.0005/MB for output files
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Agent Sandbox: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Agent Sandbox: After 5 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- Agent Sandbox: Container
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Agent Sandbox: Python
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- Agent Sandbox: Claude Code
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Agent Sandbox
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Shellbox: $0.040
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Shellbox fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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