Declaw vs Railway Sandboxes

Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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Declaw

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

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Declaw
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Declaw: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Declaw: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Declaw:
Railway Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Declaw:
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Declaw: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Declaw: Deploy in your VPC. Book a call.
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Declaw
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Declaw: $0.083
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Declaw: $0.166
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Declaw: $0.331
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Declaw fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 16 GiB.

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