Sandbox0 vs Upstash Box

Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit. Upstash Box runs containers.

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Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Sandbox0
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
Sandbox0: Included
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sandbox0: $0.015
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Sandbox0: Free
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Billing
Sandbox0: Memory only
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Concurrent sandboxes
Sandbox0: Up to 20
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Isolation
Sandbox0: gVisor
Upstash Box: Container
SDKs
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Sandbox0: Included
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sandbox0: $0.015
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Sandbox0: Free
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Sandbox0: Not listed
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Sandbox0: Memory only
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Sandbox0: No limit
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
Sandbox0: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Sandbox0: Not listed
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Sandbox0: Up to 20
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Sandbox0: gVisor
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
Sandbox0: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
Sandbox0:
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
Sandbox0:
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
Sandbox0: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Sandbox0
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Sandbox0: $0.030
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Sandbox0: $0.060
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Sandbox0: $0.120
Upstash Box: $0.400

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Sandbox0 fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use the Vercel AI SDK.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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