Blaxel vs Sandbox as a Service
Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Blaxel
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Blaxel: Pay as you go
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Blaxel:
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- Blaxel:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Blaxel
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.083
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.166
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.331
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Blaxel fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
- You want the larger free credit: $200 against $5.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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