Dedalus Machines vs Sandbox as a Service
Dedalus Machines costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Dedalus Machines runs full VMs. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Dedalus Machines
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $20 one-time sign-up credit
- Max session
- Not listed
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Dedalus Machines
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Free tier
- Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Dedalus Machines: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- SDKs
- Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Dedalus Machinesdedaluslabs
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Dedalus Machines: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Dedalus Machines: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Dedalus Machines: After 5 minutes
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Dedalus Machines: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Dedalus Machines: Full VM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- Dedalus Machines: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Dedalus Machines: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- Dedalus Machines:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Dedalus Machines: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- Dedalus Machines: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- Dedalus Machines: Enterprise plan
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Dedalus Machines
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Dedalus Machines: $0.075
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Dedalus Machines: $0.149
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Dedalus Machines: $0.298
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Dedalus Machines fits when
- You want the larger free credit: $20 against $5.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
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