inis.run vs Zipbox
Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. inis.run runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs 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
Zipbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
inis.run
Zipbox
- Storage
- inis.run: Paused sessions and persistent volumes cost about €0.07 per GB per month. Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute.
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Max session
- inis.run: 24 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- inis.run: Full VM
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- Snapshots
- inis.run:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- inis.run:
- Zipbox: No
- SDKs
- inis.run: Python, TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- inis.run: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- inis.run: Included
- Zipbox: 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.
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- inis.run: Pay as you go
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- inis.run: Bundled machine time
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- inis.run: 24 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- inis.run: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- inis.run: Up to 10
- Zipbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- inis.run: Full VM
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- inis.run: No
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- inis.run:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- inis.run:
- Zipbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- inis.run: Python, TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- inis.run: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- inis.run: In your own cloud account, from €30,000/year
- Zipbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
inis.run
Zipbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- inis.run: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.027
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
inis.run fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Zipbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use Claude Code or the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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