CreateOS Sandbox vs Lizard Sandboxes

CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

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.

CreateOS Sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
CreateOS Sandbox:
Lizard Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
CreateOS Sandbox:
Lizard Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CreateOS Sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.119 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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