microsandbox cloud vs Shellbox
microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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microsandbox cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Max session
- Not listed
Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
microsandbox cloud
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Paid plan from
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Concurrent sandboxes
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
- Shellbox: Up to 16
- Isolation
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- Pause and resume
- microsandbox cloud: No
- Shellbox:
- Integrations
- microsandbox cloud: Claude Code, MCP
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
microsandbox cloudmicrosandbox
Shellboxshellbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- microsandbox cloud:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- microsandbox cloud: No
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- microsandbox cloud: Claude Code, MCP
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- microsandbox cloud: By evaluation, contact us
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
microsandbox cloud
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: $0.082
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: $0.165
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: $0.330
- Shellbox: $0.040
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 use MCP.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Shellbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
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