Lizard Sandboxes vs Tensorlake Sandboxes

Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs 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

Tensorlake Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, $0 forever
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Lizard Sandboxes
Tensorlake Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Lizard Sandboxes
Tensorlake Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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