CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Sailboxes

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.

Updated

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

Sailboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Sailboxes
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Sailboxes: No limit
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Sailboxes: Full VM
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Sailboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Sailboxes: No limit
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Sailboxes: Full VM
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Sailboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Sailboxes:
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes:

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Sailboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Sailboxes: $0.031
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Sailboxes: $0.062
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Sailboxes: $0.124

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Sailboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 720 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related