Leap0 vs Shellbox
Leap0 costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. Leap0 runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Leap0
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free during public preview
- Max session
- 8 hours
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.
Leap0
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Leap0: $0.0504
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Leap0: $0.0162
- Shellbox: Included
- Billing
- Leap0: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Leap0: 8 hours
- Shellbox: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Leap0: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Leap0: Up to 3
- Shellbox: Up to 16
- Integrations
- Leap0: MCP, Claude Code, LangChain
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Shellboxshellbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Leap0: $0.0504
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Leap0: $0.0162
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- Leap0: Not listed
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- Leap0: Free during public preview
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Leap0: Not listed
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Leap0: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Leap0: 8 hours
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Leap0: Not listed
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Leap0: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Leap0: Up to 3
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- Leap0: Firecracker microVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Leap0: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Leap0:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- Leap0:
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Leap0: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- Leap0: MCP, Claude Code, LangChain
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Leap0: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Leap0: Via the sales team
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Leap0
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Leap0: $0.083
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Leap0: $0.166
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Leap0: $0.331
- Shellbox: $0.040
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Leap0 fits when
- You use MCP or LangChain.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Shellbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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