Lizard Sandboxes vs Shardflux
Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Lizard Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Max session
- No limit
Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Lizard Sandboxes
Shardflux
- vCPU, per hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
- Shardflux: Up to 200
- SDKs
- Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
- Shardflux: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux:
- Snapshots
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- Shardflux:
- Pause and resume
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- Shardflux:
Developer
- SDKs
- Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- BYOC
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Lizard Sandboxes
Shardflux
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
- Shardflux: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
- Shardflux: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
- Shardflux: $0.280
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Lizard Sandboxes fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.140 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Shardflux fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use MCP.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.
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