Cloudflare Sandbox vs exe.dev

Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. exe.dev runs full VMs.

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Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

exe.dev

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Cloudflare Sandbox
exe.dev
vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
exe.dev: Included
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
exe.dev: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
exe.dev: Included
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
exe.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Idle stop
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
exe.dev: Full VM
GPU
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Snapshots
Cloudflare Sandbox:
exe.dev: Not listed
Pause and resume
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
exe.dev: Not listed
Integrations
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed

Trust

License
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
BYOC
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
exe.dev: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Cloudflare Sandbox
exe.dev
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
exe.dev: $0.053
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
exe.dev: $0.105
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
exe.dev: $0.210

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Cloudflare Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

exe.dev fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.105 against $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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