Nebius Sandboxes vs Upstash Box

Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Nebius Sandboxes runs microVMs. Upstash Box runs containers.

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Nebius Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Nebius Sandboxes
Upstash Box
Isolation
Nebius Sandboxes: MicroVM
Upstash Box: Container
SDKs
Nebius Sandboxes: Python
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Nebius Sandboxes: LangChain, MCP
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Nebius Sandboxes: MicroVM
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
Nebius Sandboxes:
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
Nebius Sandboxes: Python
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Nebius Sandboxes: LangChain, MCP
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Nebius Sandboxes
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Nebius Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: $0.400

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Nebius Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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