BoxLite Cloud vs Lizard Sandboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Lizard Sandboxes:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Lizard Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Lizard Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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