Cloudflare Sandbox vs Northflank Sandboxes
Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Northflank Sandboxes runs microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Cloudflare Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- None
- Max session
- Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Cloudflare Sandbox
Northflank Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Storage
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Paid plan from
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- Isolation
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cloudflare Sandboxdevelopers
Northflank Sandboxesnorthflank
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Storage
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Free tier
- Cloudflare Sandbox: None
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Cloudflare Sandbox:
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- Integrations
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Claude Code
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Cloudflare Sandbox
Northflank Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Cloudflare Sandbox fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
Northflank Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.067 against $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
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