Railway Sandboxes vs Sendblue Sandboxes

Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour and Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

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Railway Sandboxes

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

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Railway Sandboxes
Sendblue Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Free tier
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Billing
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Idle stop
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5
Isolation
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
GPU
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Railway Sandboxes:
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Developer

SDKs
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Railway Sandboxes: Claude Code
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Railway Sandboxes
Sendblue Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

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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.
  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Sendblue Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.330 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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