inis.run vs xShellz Agent Shell
inis.run runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor and has no session limit.
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inis.run
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Max session
- 24 hours
xShellz Agent Shell
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
inis.run
xShellz Agent Shell
- Storage
- inis.run: Paused sessions and persistent volumes cost about €0.07 per GB per month. Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute.
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free
- Free tier
- inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Paid plan from
- inis.run: Pay as you go
- xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
- Max session
- inis.run: 24 hours
- xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- inis.run: Up to 10
- xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
- Isolation
- inis.run: Full VM
- xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
- SDKs
- inis.run: Python, TypeScript
- xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
- Integrations
- inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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xShellz Agent Shellxshellz
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- inis.run: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- inis.run: Included
- xShellz Agent Shell: Included
- Storage
- inis.run: Paused sessions and persistent volumes cost about €0.07 per GB per month. Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute.
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free
- Free tier
- inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Paid plan from
- inis.run: Pay as you go
- xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
- Billing
- inis.run: Bundled machine time
- xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- inis.run: 24 hours
- xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
- Idle stop
- inis.run: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- inis.run: Up to 10
- xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- inis.run: Full VM
- xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
- GPU
- inis.run: No
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Snapshots
- inis.run:
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- inis.run:
- xShellz Agent Shell:
Developer
- SDKs
- inis.run: Python, TypeScript
- xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
- Integrations
- inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- inis.run: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- BYOC
- inis.run: In your own cloud account, from €30,000/year
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
inis.run
xShellz Agent Shell
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
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 snapshots.
xShellz Agent Shell fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You use Claude Code.
- You need GDPR.
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