Sandbox as a Service vs Zipbox
Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour and Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Zipbox 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
Zipbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Sandbox as a Service
Zipbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- Free tier
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Max session
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- Snapshots
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Zipbox: No
- SDKs
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Zipboxzipbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Zipbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Zipbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Sandbox as a Service
Zipbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Zipbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- Zipbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
- Zipbox: $0.027
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 need snapshots.
- You need a sandbox larger than 6 vCPU · 16 GiB.
Zipbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.090 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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