Buddy Sandboxes vs Tensorlake Sandboxes
Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Buddy Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $1 of usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Buddy Sandboxes
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Tensorlake Sandboxestensorlake
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Buddy Sandboxes:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Buddy Sandboxes:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: AWS, GCP, Azure, CoreWeave, Nebius or bare metal
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Buddy Sandboxes
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need GDPR.
Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
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