Declaw vs Zipbox

Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Declaw

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

Zipbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Declaw
Zipbox
vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Zipbox: $0.00685
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Zipbox: Included
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Zipbox: Free
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
Zipbox: No limit
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
Snapshots
Declaw:
Zipbox: No
Pause and resume
Declaw:
Zipbox: No
SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Zipbox: $0.00685
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Zipbox: Included
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Zipbox: Free
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
Zipbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Zipbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
Zipbox: No limit
Idle stop
Declaw: Not listed
Zipbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
Zipbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Declaw: Not listed
Zipbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Declaw:
Zipbox: No
Pause and resume
Declaw:
Zipbox: No

Developer

SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain

Trust

License
Declaw: Not listed
Zipbox: Not listed
BYOC
Declaw: Enterprise on-prem in your cloud account or data center. The Declaw team runs it.
Zipbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Declaw
Zipbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Declaw: $0.083
Zipbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Declaw: $0.166
Zipbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Declaw: $0.331
Zipbox: $0.027

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Declaw fits when

  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $25.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Zipbox fits when

  • A session must run longer than 72 hours.
  • You use Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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