Cloudflare Sandbox vs xShellz Agent Shell
Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor and has no session limit.
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Cloudflare Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- None
- Max session
- Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Cloudflare Sandbox
xShellz Agent Shell
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
- xShellz Agent Shell: Included
- Storage
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free
- Free tier
- Cloudflare Sandbox: None
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Paid plan from
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
- xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
- Billing
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
- xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Isolation
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
- SDKs
- Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
- xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
- Integrations
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK
- xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cloudflare Sandboxdevelopers
xShellz Agent Shellxshellz
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
- xShellz Agent Shell: Included
- Storage
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free
- Free tier
- Cloudflare Sandbox: None
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Paid plan from
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
- xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
- Billing
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
- Idle stop
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
- xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
- GPU
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Cloudflare Sandbox:
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell:
Developer
- SDKs
- Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
- xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
- Integrations
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK
- xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- BYOC
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Cloudflare Sandbox
xShellz Agent Shell
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Cloudflare Sandbox fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You need snapshots.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
xShellz Agent Shell fits when
- You use MCP.
- You want to start without paying.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need GDPR.
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