inis.run vs Shardflux
Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. inis.run runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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inis.run
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Max session
- 24 hours
Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
11 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
inis.run
Shardflux
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- inis.run: Included
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- inis.run: Paused sessions and persistent volumes cost about €0.07 per GB per month. Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute.
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- inis.run: Pay as you go
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- inis.run: Bundled machine time
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- inis.run: Up to 10
- Shardflux: Up to 200
- Isolation
- inis.run: Full VM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- inis.run: No
- Shardflux:
- SDKs
- inis.run: Python, TypeScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- inis.run: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- inis.run: Included
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- inis.run: Paused sessions and persistent volumes cost about €0.07 per GB per month. Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute.
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- inis.run: Pay as you go
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- inis.run: Bundled machine time
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- inis.run: 24 hours
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Idle stop
- inis.run: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- inis.run: Up to 10
- Shardflux: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- inis.run: Full VM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- inis.run: No
- Shardflux:
- Snapshots
- inis.run:
- Shardflux:
- Pause and resume
- inis.run:
- Shardflux:
Developer
- SDKs
- inis.run: Python, TypeScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- inis.run: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- BYOC
- inis.run: In your own cloud account, from €30,000/year
- Shardflux: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
inis.run
Shardflux
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.280
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
inis.run fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the Vercel AI SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Shardflux fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use Claude Code.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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