Brimble Sandboxes vs xShellz Agent Shell

Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor 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

xShellz Agent Shell

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Brimble Sandboxes
xShellz Agent Shell
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Included
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
GPU
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Snapshots
Brimble Sandboxes:
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Pause and resume
Brimble Sandboxes:
xShellz Agent Shell:

Developer

SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
BYOC
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
xShellz Agent Shell
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 4 GiB.

xShellz Agent Shell fits when

  • A session must run longer than 6 hours.
  • You need GDPR.

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