Sandbox0 vs Solari

Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$5 credit, one time
Max session
No limit

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

12 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Sandbox0
Solari
vCPU, per hour
Sandbox0: Included
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sandbox0: $0.015
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Sandbox0: $0.02 per GiB-month for retained RootFS changes and memory checkpoints. Shared base images are free
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Sandbox0: $5 credit, one time
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Sandbox0: Memory only
Solari: Per second
Max session
Sandbox0: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
Sandbox0: Up to 20
Solari: Up to 10
Isolation
Sandbox0: gVisor
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
Sandbox0: Go, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK
Solari: MCP, Claude Code
BYOC
Sandbox0: No
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Sandbox0: Included
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sandbox0: $0.015
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Sandbox0: $0.02 per GiB-month for retained RootFS changes and memory checkpoints. Shared base images are free
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Sandbox0: $5 credit, one time
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Sandbox0: Memory only
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
Sandbox0: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
Sandbox0: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Sandbox0: Not listed
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Sandbox0: Up to 20
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Sandbox0: gVisor
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
Sandbox0: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
Sandbox0:
Solari:
Pause and resume
Sandbox0:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
Sandbox0: Go, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Sandbox0: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
Sandbox0: No
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Sandbox0
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Sandbox0: $0.030
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Sandbox0: $0.060
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Sandbox0: $0.120
Solari: $0.342

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Sandbox0 fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.171 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Solari fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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