Lizard Sandboxes vs Novita Sandbox

Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and Novita Sandbox costs $0.03528 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Novita Sandbox limits a session to 24 hours.

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Lizard Sandboxes

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

Novita Sandbox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$100 promotional credit
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Lizard Sandboxes
Novita Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Novita Sandbox: Per second
Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Novita Sandbox: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Novita Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Novita Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Novita Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
GPU
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Lizard Sandboxes:
Novita Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Lizard Sandboxes:
Novita Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Lizard Sandboxes
Novita Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
Novita Sandbox: $0.058
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
Novita Sandbox: $0.117
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
Novita Sandbox: $0.233

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.117 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

Novita Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.

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