DigitalOcean MicroVMs vs Lizard Sandboxes
DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- 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
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Lizard Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- Billing
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- Free tier
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Paid plan from
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- Billing
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Lizard Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Lizard Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.
Lizard Sandboxes fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.078 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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