Sailboxes vs Sandbox as a Service
Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Sailboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Sailboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- Sailboxes: $0.015
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sailboxes: $0.008
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Free tier
- Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Billing
- Sailboxes: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Sailboxes: No limit
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- SDKs
- Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Sailboxes: $0.015
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sailboxes: $0.008
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Sailboxes: Pay as you go
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Sailboxes: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Sailboxes: No limit
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Sailboxes: Full VM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Sailboxes:
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- Sailboxes:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Sailboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Sailboxes: $0.031
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Sailboxes: $0.062
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sailboxes: $0.124
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Sailboxes fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.090 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You use MCP.
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