Sandbox as a Service vs Vercel Sandbox
Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour and Vercel Sandbox costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Vercel Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs 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
Vercel Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 5 CPU-hours every month
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Sandbox as a Service
Vercel Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Free tier
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
- Paid plan from
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Integrations
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
- Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Vercel Sandboxvercel
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Storage
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
- Free tier
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
- Paid plan from
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Vercel Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Vercel Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
- Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK
Trust
- License
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Sandbox as a Service
Vercel Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.170
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.341
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.682
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Vercel Sandbox fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK 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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