AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Zipbox
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Zipbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Zipbox
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot write $0.0038 per GB. Snapshot read $0.00155 per GB.
- Zipbox: Free
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Zipbox: No
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Zipboxzipbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot write $0.0038 per GB. Snapshot read $0.00155 per GB.
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Zipbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Zipbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Zipbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Zipbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Zipbox: $0.027
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
AWS Lambda MicroVMs fits when
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
Zipbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You use MCP, Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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