Blaxel vs Declaw

Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours.

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Blaxel

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Credit of up to $200
Max session
No limit

Declaw

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
72 hours

What is different

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

Blaxel
Declaw
vCPU, per hour
Blaxel: Included
Declaw: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Blaxel: $0.0414
Declaw: $0.0162
Storage
Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Billing
Blaxel: Memory only
Declaw: Per second
Max session
Blaxel: No limit
Declaw: 72 hours
Isolation
Blaxel: MicroVM
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Integrations
Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Blaxel: Included
Declaw: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Blaxel: $0.0414
Declaw: $0.0162
Storage
Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Paid plan from
Blaxel: Pay as you go
Declaw: Pay as you go
Billing
Blaxel: Memory only
Declaw: Per second

Limits

Max session
Blaxel: No limit
Declaw: 72 hours
Idle stop
Blaxel: Not listed
Declaw: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Blaxel: Not listed
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Blaxel: Not listed
Declaw: Up to 500

Platform

Isolation
Blaxel: MicroVM
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Blaxel: Not listed
Declaw: Not listed
Snapshots
Blaxel:
Declaw:
Pause and resume
Blaxel:
Declaw:

Developer

SDKs
Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Blaxel: Not listed
Declaw: Not listed
BYOC
Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC
Declaw: Deploy in your VPC. Book a call.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Blaxel
Declaw
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Blaxel: $0.083
Declaw: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Blaxel: $0.166
Declaw: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Blaxel: $0.331
Declaw: $0.331

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Blaxel fits when

  • A session must run longer than 72 hours.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK.
  • You want the larger free credit: $200 against $100.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Declaw fits when

  • You use LangChain.

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