Sandbox as a Service vs Superserve
Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour and Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Superserve runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
Superserve
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Sandbox as a Service
Superserve
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Superserve: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Superserve: $0.0162
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Superserve: Per second
- Max session
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Superserve: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Superserve: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Superserve: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
- Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, 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
- Superserve: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Superserve: $0.0162
- Storage
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Superserve: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Superserve: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Superserve: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Superserve: No limit
- Idle stop
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Superserve: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Superserve: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Superserve: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Superserve: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Superserve:
- Pause and resume
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Superserve:
Developer
- SDKs
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Superserve: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
- Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Superserve: Not listed
- BYOC
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Superserve:
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Sandbox as a Service
Superserve
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Superserve: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- Superserve: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
- Superserve: $0.331
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.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 2 GiB.
Superserve fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You need pause and resume.
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