Northflank Sandboxes vs Shardflux
Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour and Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Northflank Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Northflank Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Northflank Sandboxes
Shardflux
- vCPU, per hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Paid plan from
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Northflank Sandboxes: No limit
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- Shardflux:
- Snapshots
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux:
- Pause and resume
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- Shardflux:
Developer
- SDKs
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- BYOC
- Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC
- Shardflux: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Northflank Sandboxes
Shardflux
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
- Shardflux: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
- Shardflux: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133
- Shardflux: $0.280
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Northflank Sandboxes fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.067 against $0.140 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.
Shardflux fits when
- You use Claude Code or MCP.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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