Declaw vs Shardflux

Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Declaw

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

Shardflux

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
30-day Pro trial, no card needed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Declaw
Shardflux
vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Shardflux: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Shardflux: $0.015
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
Shardflux: $9 / month
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
Shardflux: Up to 200
SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Shardflux: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Shardflux: $0.015
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
Shardflux: $9 / month
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Shardflux: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
Shardflux: Not listed
Idle stop
Declaw: Not listed
Shardflux: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
Shardflux: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Declaw: Not listed
Shardflux:
Snapshots
Declaw:
Shardflux:
Pause and resume
Declaw:
Shardflux:

Developer

SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License
Declaw: Not listed
Shardflux: Not listed
BYOC
Declaw: Bring Your Own Cloud. Deploy in your VPC.
Shardflux: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Declaw
Shardflux
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Declaw: $0.083
Shardflux: $0.070
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Declaw: $0.166
Shardflux: $0.140
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Declaw: $0.331
Shardflux: $0.280

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 use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Shardflux fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.140 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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