Blaxel vs Shellbox
Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Blaxel
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month. Images $0.045 per GB per month.
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month. Images $0.045 per GB per month.
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Blaxel: Pay as you go
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Blaxel:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- Blaxel:
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC, on request
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Blaxel
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.083
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.166
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.331
- Shellbox: $0.040
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Blaxel fits when
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, MCP, LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.
Shellbox fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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