Celesto Cloud vs Lizard Sandboxes

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Celesto Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Max session
Not listed

Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Celesto Cloud
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Celesto Cloud:
Lizard Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Celesto Cloud:
Lizard Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Celesto Cloud
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.060
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Celesto Cloud fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
  • You use MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.030 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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