Northflank Sandboxes vs Vercel Sandbox
Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour and Vercel Sandbox costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Northflank Sandboxes runs microVMs and offers GPUs. Vercel Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Northflank Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Vercel Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 5 CPU-hours every month
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Northflank Sandboxes
Vercel Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Storage
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
- Paid plan from
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Storage
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
- Free tier
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
- Paid plan from
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- Vercel Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK
Trust
- License
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Northflank Sandboxes
Vercel Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.170
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.341
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.682
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 the lower list price: $0.067 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Vercel Sandbox fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You need snapshots.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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