Phonebox vs Sandbox as a Service
Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Phonebox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Max session
- 3 hours
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Phonebox
Sandbox as a Service
- Free tier
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Max session
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Phonebox: Up to 5
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- SDKs
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Phonebox: Up to 5
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- Phonebox:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Phonebox: MCP
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Phonebox
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Phonebox fits when
- You need pause and resume.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- A session must run longer than 3 hours.
- You want the larger free credit: $5 against $2.
- You need snapshots.
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