CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Upstash Box

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Upstash Box runs containers.

Updated

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Upstash Box: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Upstash Box: $0.400

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.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related