Islo Sandboxes vs Upstash Box

Islo Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Islo Sandboxes runs microVMs. Upstash Box runs containers.

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Islo Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Starting credit, no card required
Max session
Not listed

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Islo Sandboxes
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Billing
Islo Sandboxes: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Isolation
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
Upstash Box: Container
SDKs
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Islo Sandboxes: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
Islo Sandboxes:
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
Islo Sandboxes:
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
Islo Sandboxes: Agent computers run in your VPC.
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Islo Sandboxes
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Islo Sandboxes: $0.150
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Islo Sandboxes: $0.300
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Islo Sandboxes: $0.600
Upstash Box: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Islo Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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