Phonebox vs Railway Sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.
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Phonebox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Max session
- 3 hours
Railway Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 trial credit for 30 days
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Phonebox
Railway Sandboxes
- Free tier
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
- Paid plan from
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
- Billing
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
- Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
- Idle stop
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Phonebox: Up to 5
- Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
- Integrations
- Phonebox: MCP
- Railway Sandboxes: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Railway Sandboxesrailway
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
- Storage
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
- Free tier
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
- Paid plan from
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
- Billing
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
- Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Phonebox: Up to 5
- Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Phonebox:
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Phonebox: MCP
- Railway Sandboxes: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Phonebox
Railway Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes: $0.833
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Phonebox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use MCP.
- You need pause and resume.
Railway Sandboxes fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.
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