CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Lizard Sandboxes

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

Lizard Sandboxes

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

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Lizard Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 720 hours.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

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