Buddy Sandboxes vs Together Sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour and Together Sandbox costs $0.0446 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. Together Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs 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
Together Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Buddy Sandboxes
Together Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- Together Sandbox: $0.0446
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- Together Sandbox: $0.0149
- Largest sandbox
- Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
- Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Isolation
- Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
- Together Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Pause and resume
- Buddy Sandboxes:
- Together Sandbox: No
- SDKs
- Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Together Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Buddy Sandboxesbuddy
Together Sandboxtogether
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- Together Sandbox: $0.0446
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- Together Sandbox: $0.0149
- Storage
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
- Together Sandbox: Not listed
- Free tier
- Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
- Together Sandbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
- Together Sandbox: Not listed
- Billing
- Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
- Together Sandbox: Not listed
Limits
- Max session
- Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
- Together Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- Together Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
- Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- Together Sandbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
- Together Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- Together Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Buddy Sandboxes:
- Together Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Buddy Sandboxes:
- Together Sandbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Together Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
- Together Sandbox: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- Together Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- Together Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Buddy Sandboxes
Together Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
- Together Sandbox: $0.074
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
- Together Sandbox: $0.149
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173
- Together Sandbox: $0.298
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 $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
Together Sandbox fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need a sandbox larger than 12 vCPU · 24 GiB.
- You need ISO 27001.
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