Brimble Sandboxes vs Northflank Sandboxes

Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. Northflank Sandboxes runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

Northflank Sandboxes

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
Free Sandbox plan, up to $20 of resources a month, no card
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Brimble Sandboxes
Northflank Sandboxes
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Northflank Sandboxes: Persistent disk $0.11657 per GiB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is free.
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Northflank Sandboxes: Free Sandbox plan, up to $20 of resources a month, no card
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Northflank Sandboxes: No limit
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Northflank Sandboxes: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Northflank Sandboxes: Persistent disk $0.11657 per GiB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is free.
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Northflank Sandboxes: Free Sandbox plan, up to $20 of resources a month, no card
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
Northflank Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Northflank Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Northflank Sandboxes: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Brimble Sandboxes:
Northflank Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Brimble Sandboxes:
Northflank Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
Northflank Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You use MCP or Claude Code.

Northflank Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • A session must run longer than 6 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.

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