Apify AI Code Sandbox vs Novita Sandbox

Apify AI Code Sandbox bills memory only, at $0.20 per GiB-hour. Novita Sandbox costs $0.03528 per vCPU-hour. Apify AI Code Sandbox runs containers and has no session limit. Novita Sandbox limits a session to 3 hours.

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Apify AI Code Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$5 of usage every month
Max session
No limit

Novita Sandbox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$100 promotional credit after a setup survey, no card
Max session
3 hours

What is different

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

Apify AI Code Sandbox
Novita Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Included
Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
RAM, per GiB-hour
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $0.20
Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
Storage
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Disk in the run is part of the compute price. The workspace backup goes to a key-value store at $1 per 1,000 GB-hours, plus reads and writes. Data transfer out $0.20 per GB
Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
Free tier
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $5 of usage every month
Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit after a setup survey, no card
Paid plan from
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $19 / month
Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Memory only
Novita Sandbox: Per second
Max session
Apify AI Code Sandbox: No limit
Novita Sandbox: 3 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Up to 256
Novita Sandbox: Up to 100
Integrations
Apify AI Code Sandbox: MCP, Claude Code
Novita Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Included
Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
RAM, per GiB-hour
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $0.20
Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
Storage
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Disk in the run is part of the compute price. The workspace backup goes to a key-value store at $1 per 1,000 GB-hours, plus reads and writes. Data transfer out $0.20 per GB
Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
Free tier
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $5 of usage every month
Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit after a setup survey, no card
Paid plan from
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $19 / month
Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Memory only
Novita Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Apify AI Code Sandbox: No limit
Novita Sandbox: 3 hours
Idle stop
Apify AI Code Sandbox: After 15 minutes
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Up to 256
Novita Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Container
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
GPU
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Not listed
Novita Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Not listed
Novita Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Apify AI Code Sandbox: MCP, Claude Code
Novita Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Apify AI Code Sandbox
Novita Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $0.400
Novita Sandbox: $0.058
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $0.800
Novita Sandbox: $0.117
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $1.600
Novita Sandbox: $0.233

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Apify AI Code Sandbox fits when

  • A session must run longer than 3 hours.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

Novita Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.117 against $0.800 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $5.

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