Sailboxes vs tama

Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Sailboxes

Persistent Linux VMs for long-horizon AI agents.

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

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tama

Linux VMs with GPUs, billed by the second.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site tama profile

What is different

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

Field

Sailboxes

tama

vCPU, per hour: Sailboxes: $0.015; tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour: Sailboxes: $0.008; tama: $0.0055
Storage: Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour; tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
SDKs: Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust; tama: Python, TypeScript

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Sailboxes: $0.015; tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour: Sailboxes: $0.008; tama: $0.0055
Storage: Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour; tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Free tier: Sailboxes: $5 credit every month; tama: Not listed
Paid plan from: Sailboxes: Pay as you go; tama: Not listed
Billing: Sailboxes: Per second; tama: Per second

Limits

Max session: Sailboxes: No limit; tama: Not listed
Idle stop: Sailboxes: Not listed; tama: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Sailboxes: Not listed; tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Sailboxes: Up to 5,000; tama: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Sailboxes: Full VM; tama: Full VM
GPU: Sailboxes: Not listed; tama:
Snapshots: Sailboxes:; tama:
Pause and resume: Sailboxes:; tama:

Developer

SDKs: Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust; tama: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: Sailboxes: Not listed; tama: Not listed

Trust

License: Sailboxes: Not listed; tama: Not listed
BYOC: Sailboxes: Not listed; tama: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Sailboxes

tama

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Sailboxes: $0.031; tama: $0.023
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Sailboxes: $0.062; tama: $0.045
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Sailboxes: $0.124; tama: $0.091

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Sailboxes fits when

You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

tama fits when

You need GPUs.
You want the lower list price: $0.045 against $0.062 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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