Phonebox vs Solari

Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs 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

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Phonebox
Solari
Free tier
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Solari: Per second
Max session
Phonebox: 3 hours
Solari: 24 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
Phonebox: Up to 5
Solari: Up to 10
SDKs
Phonebox: TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Phonebox: MCP
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Phonebox: Not listed
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Phonebox: Not listed
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Phonebox: Not listed
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
Phonebox: 3 hours
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Phonebox: Not listed
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Phonebox: Up to 5
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Phonebox: Not listed
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
Phonebox: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
Phonebox: Not listed
Solari:
Pause and resume
Phonebox:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
Phonebox: TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Phonebox: MCP
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Phonebox: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
Phonebox: Not listed
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Phonebox
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Solari: $0.342

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Phonebox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.

Solari fits when

  • A session must run longer than 3 hours.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the larger free credit: $3 against $2.
  • You need snapshots.

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