Sandbox as a Service vs StateSet Sandbox
Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
StateSet Sandbox
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- $25 trial credit, no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Sandbox as a Service
StateSet Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Free tier
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- Integrations
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Storage
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Free tier
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Paid plan from
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- GPU
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Sandbox as a Service:
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Sandbox as a Service
StateSet Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.028
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
StateSet Sandbox fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.090 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want the larger free credit: $25 against $5.
- You need pause and resume.
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