Dedalus Machines vs Lizard Sandboxes

Dedalus Machines costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. Dedalus Machines runs full VMs. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Dedalus Machines

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$20 one-time sign-up credit
Max session
Not listed

Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Dedalus Machines
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
Dedalus Machines: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
Dedalus Machines: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Dedalus Machines: After 5 minutes
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Dedalus Machines:
Lizard Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Dedalus Machines: Enterprise plan
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Dedalus Machines
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Dedalus Machines: $0.075
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Dedalus Machines: $0.149
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Dedalus Machines: $0.298
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Dedalus Machines fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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