Containarium Cloud vs Lizard Sandboxes

Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Containarium Cloud
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Containarium Cloud
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.080
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Containarium Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use MCP.
  • You need ISO 27001.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.040 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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