Phonebox vs Zipbox
Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs 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
Zipbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Phonebox
Zipbox
- Free tier
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Max session
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Pause and resume
- Phonebox:
- Zipbox: No
- SDKs
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- Phonebox: MCP
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Phonebox: Up to 5
- Zipbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- Phonebox:
- Zipbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- Phonebox: MCP
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Phonebox
Zipbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.027
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Phonebox fits when
- You need pause and resume.
Zipbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 3 hours.
- You use Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
- You want the larger free credit: $25 against $2.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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