Sandock vs Shardflux
Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Sandock runs containers and limits a session to 8 hours. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
Updated
Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Sandock
Shardflux
- Free tier
- Sandock: None
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- Sandock: $5 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Largest sandbox
- Sandock: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandock: Up to 150
- Shardflux: Up to 200
- Isolation
- Sandock: Container
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Sandock: JavaScript / TypeScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Sandock: MCP
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Sandocksandock
Shardfluxshardflux
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandock: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandock: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- Sandock: Not listed
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- Sandock: None
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- Sandock: $5 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- Sandock: Not listed
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Sandock: 8 hours
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Sandock: After 30 minutes
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Sandock: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandock: Up to 150
- Shardflux: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Sandock: Container
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Sandock: Not listed
- Shardflux:
- Snapshots
- Sandock: Not listed
- Shardflux:
- Pause and resume
- Sandock:
- Shardflux:
Developer
- SDKs
- Sandock: JavaScript / TypeScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Sandock: MCP
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Sandock: MIT
- Shardflux: Not listed
- BYOC
- Sandock: Private / VPC deployment on Enterprise
- Shardflux: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Sandock
Shardflux
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Sandock: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Sandock: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandock: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.280
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Sandock fits when
- You want an open-source platform (MIT) that you can self-host.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Shardflux fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want to start without paying.
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