Lizard Sandboxes vs Shellbox
Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Lizard Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Max session
- No limit
Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Lizard Sandboxes
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- Shellbox: $0.01
- Storage
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Paid plan from
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Largest sandbox
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
- Shellbox: Up to 16
- Integrations
- Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code, MCP, LangChain
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Shellboxshellbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code, MCP, LangChain
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Lizard Sandboxes
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
- Shellbox: $0.040
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Lizard Sandboxes fits when
- You use MCP or LangChain.
- You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.020 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need GDPR.
Shellbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.
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