Sailboxes vs Superserve

Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. Superserve runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Sailboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit every month
Max session
No limit

Superserve

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Sailboxes
Superserve
vCPU, per hour
Sailboxes: $0.015
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sailboxes: $0.008
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Isolation
Sailboxes: Full VM
Superserve: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Superserve: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Sailboxes: $0.015
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sailboxes: $0.008
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Superserve: Not listed
Paid plan from
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing
Sailboxes: Per second
Superserve: Per second

Limits

Max session
Sailboxes: No limit
Superserve: No limit
Idle stop
Sailboxes: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Sailboxes: Not listed
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
Superserve: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Sailboxes: Full VM
Superserve: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Sailboxes: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
Snapshots
Sailboxes:
Superserve:
Pause and resume
Sailboxes:
Superserve:

Developer

SDKs
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Superserve: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Sailboxes: Not listed
Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Sailboxes: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
BYOC
Sailboxes: Not listed
Superserve:

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Sailboxes
Superserve
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Sailboxes: $0.031
Superserve: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Sailboxes: $0.062
Superserve: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Sailboxes: $0.124
Superserve: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Sailboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2.

Superserve fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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