Phonebox vs Sandbox0

Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.

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Phonebox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$2 starter credit, one time, no card
Max session
3 hours

Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Phonebox
Sandbox0
Billing
Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Sandbox0: Memory only
Max session
Phonebox: 3 hours
Sandbox0: No limit
Concurrent sandboxes
Phonebox: Up to 5
Sandbox0: Up to 20
SDKs
Phonebox: TypeScript
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Phonebox: MCP
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Phonebox: Not listed
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Phonebox: Not listed
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
Phonebox: Not listed
Sandbox0: Free
Free tier
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Sandbox0: Not listed
Paid plan from
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Sandbox0: Memory only

Limits

Max session
Phonebox: 3 hours
Sandbox0: No limit
Idle stop
Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Sandbox0: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Phonebox: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Phonebox: Up to 5
Sandbox0: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Phonebox: Not listed
Sandbox0: gVisor
GPU
Phonebox: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Snapshots
Phonebox: Not listed
Sandbox0:
Pause and resume
Phonebox:
Sandbox0:

Developer

SDKs
Phonebox: TypeScript
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Phonebox: MCP
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Phonebox: Not listed
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Phonebox: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Phonebox
Sandbox0
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Sandbox0: $0.030
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Sandbox0: $0.060
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Sandbox0: $0.120

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Phonebox fits when

  • You use MCP.

Sandbox0 fits when

  • A session must run longer than 3 hours.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need snapshots.

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