Anthropic Code Execution vs Sandbox as a Service
Anthropic Code Execution costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Anthropic Code Execution runs containers. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Anthropic Code Execution
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- 1,550 free hours per month
- Max session
- Not listed
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Anthropic Code Execution
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- Anthropic Code Execution: $0.05
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Free tier
- Anthropic Code Execution: 1,550 free hours per month
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Largest sandbox
- Anthropic Code Execution: 1 vCPU · 5 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- Anthropic Code Execution: Container
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- SDKs
- Anthropic Code Execution: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Anthropic Code Executionplatform
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Anthropic Code Execution: $0.05
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Anthropic Code Execution: Included
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- Anthropic Code Execution: 1,550 free hours per month
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Anthropic Code Execution: Bundled machine time
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Anthropic Code Execution: 1 vCPU · 5 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Anthropic Code Execution: Container
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- Anthropic Code Execution:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Anthropic Code Execution: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Anthropic Code Execution
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Anthropic Code Execution: $0.050
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Anthropic Code Execution: $0.100
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Anthropic Code Execution: $0.200
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Anthropic Code Execution fits when
- You need pause and resume.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.100 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
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