LangSmith Sandboxes vs Shellbox
LangSmith Sandboxes costs $0.0576 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. LangSmith Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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LangSmith Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Credit of 8 LSU every month
- Max session
- Not listed
Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
LangSmith Sandboxes
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Billing
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Idle stop
- LangSmith Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Integrations
- LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain, MCP
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
LangSmith Sandboxeslangchain
Shellboxshellbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- LangSmith Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- LangSmith Sandboxes:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- LangSmith Sandboxes:
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain, MCP
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Enterprise plan
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
LangSmith Sandboxes
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.095
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.189
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.378
- Shellbox: $0.040
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
LangSmith Sandboxes fits when
- You use LangChain or MCP.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.
- You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.
Shellbox fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 against $0.189 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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