CreateOS Sandbox vs Shardflux
CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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CreateOS Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Starting credit of 500 credits
- Max session
- No limit
Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
11 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
CreateOS Sandbox
Shardflux
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- CreateOS Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- Shardflux: Up to 200
- GPU
- CreateOS Sandbox: No
- Shardflux:
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- CreateOS Sandbox: Claude Code
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- CreateOS Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Idle stop
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- Shardflux: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- CreateOS Sandbox: No
- Shardflux:
- Snapshots
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- Shardflux:
- Pause and resume
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- Shardflux:
Developer
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- CreateOS Sandbox: Claude Code
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- BYOC
- CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
- Shardflux: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
CreateOS Sandbox
Shardflux
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
- Shardflux: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
- Shardflux: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
- Shardflux: $0.280
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
CreateOS Sandbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.140 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.
Shardflux fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use MCP.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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