Sandbox as a Service vs Upstash Box
Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Upstash Box runs containers.
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Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
Upstash Box
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Sandbox as a Service
Upstash Box
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- Free tier
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Upstash Box: Container
- SDKs
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Upstash Boxupstash
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Upstash Box: Included
- Storage
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Paid plan from
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Upstash Box: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Upstash Box: Container
- GPU
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Upstash Box:
- Pause and resume
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Upstash Box:
Developer
- SDKs
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Trust
- License
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- BYOC
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Sandbox as a Service
Upstash Box
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Upstash Box: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- Upstash Box: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
- Upstash Box: $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.
Upstash Box fits when
- You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You need pause and resume.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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