Buddy Sandboxes vs Declaw

Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour and Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours.

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Buddy Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$1 of usage credit every month
Max session
No limit

Declaw

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
72 hours

What is different

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

Buddy Sandboxes
Declaw
vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Declaw: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Declaw: $0.0162
Storage
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Paid plan from
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
Declaw: Pay as you go
Max session
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
Declaw: 72 hours
Largest sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Declaw: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Declaw: $0.0162
Storage
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Paid plan from
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
Declaw: Pay as you go
Billing
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
Declaw: Per second

Limits

Max session
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
Declaw: 72 hours
Idle stop
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Declaw: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Declaw: Up to 500

Platform

Isolation
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Declaw: Not listed
Snapshots
Buddy Sandboxes:
Declaw:
Pause and resume
Buddy Sandboxes:
Declaw:

Developer

SDKs
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Declaw: Not listed
BYOC
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Declaw: Enterprise on-prem in your cloud account or data center. The Declaw team runs it.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Buddy Sandboxes
Declaw
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
Declaw: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
Declaw: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173
Declaw: $0.331

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Buddy Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 72 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.086 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Declaw fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $1.

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