Containarium Cloud vs Upstash Box

Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. Upstash Box runs containers.

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Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Containarium Cloud
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Upstash Box: $0.10
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code

Trust

License
Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Containarium Cloud
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.080
Upstash Box: $0.400

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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 want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need ISO 27001.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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