Cloudflare Sandbox vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Cloudflare Sandbox

Linux sandboxes that run untrusted or generated code, driven from a Worker.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: None
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Cloudflare Sandbox profile

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Isolated microVMs for AI agents that fork from a saved snapshot, part of SF Compute Autoresearch.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: None
Max session: Not listed

Visit site SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

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Cloudflare Sandbox

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Paid plan from: Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Largest sandbox: Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation: Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
Integrations: Cloudflare Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Cloudflare Sandboxdevelopers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform/pricingdevelopers.cloudflare.com

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxesautoresearch.sfcompute.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier: Cloudflare Sandbox: None; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from: Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only

Limits

Max session: Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop: Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Platform

Isolation: Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU: Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots: Cloudflare Sandbox:; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
Pause and resume: Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs: Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations: Cloudflare Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Cloudflare Sandbox

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Cloudflare Sandbox fits when

You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
You want the lower list price: $0.180 against $0.183 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes fits when

You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
You use MCP.
You need pause and resume.
You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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