Sailboxes vs Solari

Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs 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

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.

Sailboxes
Solari
vCPU, per hour
Sailboxes: $0.015
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sailboxes: $0.008
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Max session
Sailboxes: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Sailboxes: 8 vCPU · 256 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
Solari: Up to 10
Isolation
Sailboxes: Full VM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Sailboxes: Claude Code
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Sailboxes: $0.015
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sailboxes: $0.008
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Sailboxes: Per second
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
Sailboxes: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
Sailboxes: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Sailboxes: 8 vCPU · 256 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Sailboxes
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Sailboxes: $0.031
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Sailboxes: $0.062
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Sailboxes: $0.124
Solari: $0.342

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Sailboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.171 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Solari fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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