EQVPS Sandboxes vs Tenki Sandbox

EQVPS Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Tenki Sandbox costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. EQVPS Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 720 hours. Tenki Sandbox runs full VMs.

Updated

EQVPS Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$1 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
720 hours

Tenki Sandbox

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time ($50 at sign-up, $50 when you add a payment method)
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

EQVPS Sandboxes
Tenki Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time ($50 at sign-up, $50 when you add a payment method)
Paid plan from
EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
Largest sandbox
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20
Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100
Isolation
EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Tenki Sandbox: Full VM
SDKs
EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time ($50 at sign-up, $50 when you add a payment method)
Paid plan from
EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
Billing
EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second
Tenki Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20
Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Tenki Sandbox: Full VM
GPU
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox:
Pause and resume
EQVPS Sandboxes:
Tenki Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Tenki Sandbox: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

EQVPS Sandboxes
Tenki Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.066
Tenki Sandbox: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.132
Tenki Sandbox: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.264
Tenki Sandbox: $0.331

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

Which one fits

Based on the fields above

EQVPS Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.132 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Tenki Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $1.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related