Cloudflare Sandbox vs Sendblue Sandboxes

Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

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Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Cloudflare Sandbox
Sendblue Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
GPU
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Cloudflare Sandbox:
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Developer

SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Cloudflare Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Cloudflare Sandbox
Sendblue Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

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 use Claude Code or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.180 against $0.330 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

Sendblue Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to start without paying.

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