Railway Sandboxes vs Solari

Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
No limit

Solari

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

What is different

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

Railway Sandboxes
Solari
vCPU, per hour
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Solari: $0.0165
Free tier
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Solari: Per second
Max session
Railway Sandboxes: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Solari: Up to 10
Isolation
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Railway Sandboxes: Claude Code
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
Railway Sandboxes: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
Railway Sandboxes:
Solari:
Pause and resume
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari:

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Railway Sandboxes
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833
Solari: $0.342

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.

Solari fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.171 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

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