Sendblue Sandboxes vs Upstash Box

Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers. Upstash Box runs containers.

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Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

Upstash Box

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

What is different

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

Sendblue Sandboxes
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
Upstash Box: $0.10
Free tier
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Billing
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Idle stop
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Pause and resume
Sendblue Sandboxes: No
Upstash Box:

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
Sendblue Sandboxes: No
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Sendblue Sandboxes
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660
Upstash Box: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use LangChain, the Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.330 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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