Lizard Sandboxes vs xShellz Agent Shell

Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor 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

xShellz Agent Shell

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Lizard Sandboxes
xShellz Agent Shell
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code, MCP, LangChain
xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
xShellz Agent Shell: Included
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
Idle stop
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
GPU
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Snapshots
Lizard Sandboxes:
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Pause and resume
Lizard Sandboxes:
xShellz Agent Shell:

Developer

SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code, MCP, LangChain
xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
BYOC
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Lizard Sandboxes
xShellz Agent Shell
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

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

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