Hyperbrowser Sandboxes vs Shellbox
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. Hyperbrowser Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
- Max session
- 24 hours
Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
- Shellbox: Included
- Paid plan from
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Shellbox: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 256 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Isolation
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Full VM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Shellboxshellbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 256 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Full VM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes:
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Claude Code
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.075
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.150
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.300
- Shellbox: $0.040
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.
Shellbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- 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: $0.020 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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