Everstack vs Shellbox
Everstack costs $0.0666 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Everstack
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
- Max session
- Not listed
Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Everstack
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Everstack: $0.0666
- Shellbox: $0.01
- Storage
- Everstack: Free
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Paid plan from
- Everstack: $20 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Largest sandbox
- Everstack: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Everstack: Up to 50
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Shellboxshellbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Everstack: $0.0666
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Everstack: Included
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- Everstack: Free
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- Everstack: $5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Everstack: $20 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Everstack: Bundled machine time
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Everstack: Not listed
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Everstack: Not listed
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Everstack: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Everstack: Up to 50
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- Everstack: Not listed
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Everstack: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Everstack:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- Everstack:
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Everstack: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- Everstack: Not listed
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Everstack: Apache-2.0
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Everstack: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Everstack
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Everstack: $0.067
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Everstack: $0.133
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Everstack: $0.266
- Shellbox: $0.040
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Everstack fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Shellbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 against $0.133 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 4 GiB.
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