Depot Sandboxes vs Solari

Depot Sandboxes costs $0.18 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Depot Sandboxes runs microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Depot Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
7-day free trial, no credit card
Max session
24 hours

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Depot Sandboxes
Solari
vCPU, per hour
Depot Sandboxes: $0.18
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Depot Sandboxes: Included
Solari: $0.0165
Free tier
Depot Sandboxes: 7-day free trial, no credit card
Solari: $3 credit every month
Isolation
Depot Sandboxes: MicroVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Pause and resume
Depot Sandboxes: No
Solari:
SDKs
Depot Sandboxes: TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Depot Sandboxes: Claude Code
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Depot Sandboxes: $0.18
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Depot Sandboxes: Included
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Depot Sandboxes: 7-day free trial, no credit card
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Depot Sandboxes: $20 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Depot Sandboxes: Per second
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
Depot Sandboxes: 24 hours
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Depot Sandboxes: MicroVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
Depot Sandboxes:
Solari:
Pause and resume
Depot Sandboxes: No
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
Depot Sandboxes: TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Depot Sandboxes: Claude Code
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Depot Sandboxes
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Depot Sandboxes: $0.180
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Depot Sandboxes: $0.360
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Depot Sandboxes: $0.720
Solari: $0.342

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Depot Sandboxes fits when

  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

Solari fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.171 against $0.360 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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