Azure Container Apps Sandboxes vs Shardflux
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes costs $0.0864 per vCPU-hour and Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Azure Container Apps Sandboxes runs microVMs. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
Shardflux
- vCPU, per hour
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0864
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0108
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Storage charge coming soon
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Billing
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Per second
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Claude Code
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Azure Container Apps Sandboxessandboxes
Shardfluxshardflux
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0864
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0108
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Storage charge coming soon
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Per second
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux:
- Snapshots
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes:
- Shardflux:
- Pause and resume
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes:
- Shardflux:
Developer
- SDKs
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Claude Code
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- BYOC
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
Shardflux
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.108
- Shardflux: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.216
- Shardflux: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.432
- Shardflux: $0.280
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Shardflux fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.140 against $0.216 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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