Lizard Sandboxes vs Superserve

Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Superserve 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

Superserve

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Lizard Sandboxes
Superserve
vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Superserve: Per second
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Superserve: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Superserve: Not listed
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Superserve: Per second

Limits

Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Superserve: No limit
Idle stop
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Superserve: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Superserve: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
BYOC
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Superserve:

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Lizard Sandboxes
Superserve
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
Superserve: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
Superserve: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
Superserve: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 2 GiB.

Superserve fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.

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