Declaw vs Upstash Box

Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Upstash Box runs containers.

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Declaw

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

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Declaw
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Isolation
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Upstash Box: Container
SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
Declaw: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
Declaw: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
Declaw:
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
Declaw:
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code

Trust

License
Declaw: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
Declaw: Deploy in your VPC. Book a call.
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Declaw
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Declaw: $0.083
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Declaw: $0.166
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Declaw: $0.331
Upstash Box: $0.400

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Declaw fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use the Vercel AI SDK or Claude Code.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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