Lizard Sandboxes vs microsandbox cloud

Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.

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Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

microsandbox cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Lizard Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud
vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
microsandbox cloud: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
Pause and resume
Lizard Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud: No
SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
microsandbox cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000

Platform

Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: No
Snapshots
Lizard Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud:
Pause and resume
Lizard Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud: No

Developer

SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Lizard Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
microsandbox cloud: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
microsandbox cloud: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
microsandbox cloud: $0.330

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

microsandbox cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.

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