Lizard Sandboxes vs Solari

Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and 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

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Lizard Sandboxes
Solari
vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Solari: Per second
Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Solari: Up to 10
Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code, MCP, LangChain
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
Lizard Sandboxes:
Solari:
Pause and resume
Lizard Sandboxes:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code, MCP, LangChain
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Lizard Sandboxes
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
Solari: $0.342

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 use LangChain.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.171 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need GDPR.

Solari fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need HIPAA.

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