Declaw vs Namespace Devboxes

Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs.

Updated

Declaw

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
72 hours

Namespace Devboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
30-day free trial
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Declaw
Namespace Devboxes
vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Declaw: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
GPU
Declaw: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Declaw:
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Declaw:
Namespace Devboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Declaw: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Declaw: Deploy in your VPC. Book a call.
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Declaw
Namespace Devboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Declaw: $0.083
Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Declaw: $0.166
Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Declaw: $0.331
Namespace Devboxes: $0.240

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Declaw fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Namespace Devboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 16 GiB.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related