CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Perplexity Sandbox

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Perplexity Sandbox runs containers.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

Perplexity Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

1 field differs. The rest are the same or not listed.

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Perplexity Sandbox
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Perplexity Sandbox: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 2,000
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Perplexity Sandbox: Container
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Perplexity Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.

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