Lizard Sandboxes vs StateSet Sandbox

Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor 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

StateSet Sandbox

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$25 trial credit, no card
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Lizard Sandboxes
StateSet Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code, MCP, LangChain
StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
StateSet Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code, MCP, LangChain
StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Lizard Sandboxes
StateSet Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
StateSet Sandbox: $0.028

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 want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

StateSet Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.016 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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