Northflank Sandboxes vs Railway Sandboxes

Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. Northflank Sandboxes runs microVMs and offers GPUs. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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Northflank Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Northflank Sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Paid plan from
Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Northflank Sandboxes:
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Northflank Sandboxes:
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Northflank Sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Northflank Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.067 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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