Koyeb Sandboxes vs Shellbox
Koyeb Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. Koyeb Sandboxes runs microVMs and offers GPUs. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Koyeb Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Koyeb Sandboxes
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.0144
- Shellbox: $0.01
- Idle stop
- Koyeb Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Isolation
- Koyeb Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Shellboxshellbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.0144
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Included
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Koyeb Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- Koyeb Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Koyeb Sandboxes:
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Koyeb Sandboxes:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Koyeb Sandboxes
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.014
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.029
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.058
- Shellbox: $0.040
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Koyeb Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR.
Shellbox fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 against $0.029 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
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