Railway Sandboxes vs Sandbox0

Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.

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Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Railway Sandboxes
Sandbox0
vCPU, per hour
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Sandbox0: $0.015
Paid plan from
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Sandbox0: Memory only
Concurrent sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Sandbox0: Up to 20
Isolation
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
Sandbox0: gVisor
SDKs
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Railway Sandboxes: Claude Code
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Free
Free tier
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Sandbox0: Not listed
Paid plan from
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Sandbox0: Memory only

Limits

Max session
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: No limit
Idle stop
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Sandbox0: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sandbox0: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Sandbox0: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
Sandbox0: gVisor
GPU
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Snapshots
Railway Sandboxes:
Sandbox0:
Pause and resume
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0:

Developer

SDKs
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Railway Sandboxes: Claude Code
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Railway Sandboxes
Sandbox0
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
Sandbox0: $0.030
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
Sandbox0: $0.060
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833
Sandbox0: $0.120

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Sandbox0 fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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