Buddy Sandboxes vs Sendblue Sandboxes

Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour and Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

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Buddy Sandboxes

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

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Buddy Sandboxes
Sendblue Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Free tier
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Billing
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Pause and resume
Buddy Sandboxes:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
GPU
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Buddy Sandboxes:
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Buddy Sandboxes:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Developer

SDKs
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Buddy Sandboxes
Sendblue Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Buddy Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.086 against $0.330 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

Sendblue Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $1.
  • You need HIPAA.

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