CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Shellbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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CoreWeave Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 720 hours
Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
CoreWeave Sandboxes
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Billing
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
- Shellbox: No limit
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 2,000
- Shellbox: Up to 16
- Isolation
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
CoreWeave Sandboxescoreweave
Shellboxshellbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 2,000
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
- Shellbox: $0.040
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Shellbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 720 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
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