Containarium Cloud vs Zipbox

Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Containarium Cloud

Hosted Linux boxes for AI agents, reached over SSH.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Containarium Cloud profile

Zipbox

Long-lived Firecracker microVMs for AI agents, each with its own desktop.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Max session: No limit

Visit site Zipbox profile

What is different

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

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Containarium Cloud

Zipbox

Paid plan from: Containarium Cloud: $20 / month; Zipbox: Pay as you go
Largest sandbox: Containarium Cloud: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB; Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation: Containarium Cloud: Container; Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
Integrations: Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code; Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Containarium Cloudcontainarium.dev/pricingcontainarium.dev

Zipboxzipbox.ai/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Zipbox: $0.00685
RAM, per GiB-hour: Containarium Cloud: Included; Zipbox: Included
Storage: Containarium Cloud: Free; Zipbox: Free
Free tier: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Paid plan from: Containarium Cloud: $20 / month; Zipbox: Pay as you go
Billing: Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time; Zipbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Zipbox: No limit
Idle stop: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Zipbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Containarium Cloud: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB; Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Zipbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Containarium Cloud: Container; Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Zipbox: Not listed
Snapshots: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Zipbox: No
Pause and resume: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Zipbox: No

Developer

SDKs: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations: Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code; Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain

Trust

License: Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0; Zipbox: Not listed
BYOC: Containarium Cloud: Sales-led, on GCP or AWS; Zipbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Containarium Cloud

Zipbox

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Zipbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Zipbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Zipbox: $0.027

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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 need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
You need ISO 27001.

Zipbox fits when

You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You use the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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