Sandbox as a Service vs Tensorlake Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Sandbox as a Service
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Free tier
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Tensorlake Sandboxestensorlake
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Sandbox as a Service
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400
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 use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need pause and resume.
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