microsandbox cloud vs Shardflux
microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour and Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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microsandbox cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Max session
- Not listed
Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
microsandbox cloud
Shardflux
- vCPU, per hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
- Concurrent sandboxes
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
- Shardflux: Up to 200
- Isolation
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- Pause and resume
- microsandbox cloud: No
- Shardflux:
- SDKs
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
microsandbox cloudmicrosandbox
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Idle stop
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
- Shardflux: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Shardflux:
- Snapshots
- microsandbox cloud:
- Shardflux:
- Pause and resume
- microsandbox cloud: No
- Shardflux:
Developer
- SDKs
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- microsandbox cloud: Claude Code, MCP
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
- Shardflux: Not listed
- BYOC
- microsandbox cloud: By evaluation, contact us
- Shardflux: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
microsandbox cloud
Shardflux
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: $0.082
- Shardflux: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: $0.165
- Shardflux: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: $0.330
- Shardflux: $0.280
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
microsandbox cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Shardflux fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want the lower list price: $0.140 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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