Sendblue Sandboxes vs Vercel Sandbox

Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour and Vercel Sandbox costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers. Vercel Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

Updated

Sendblue Sandboxes

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

Vercel Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
5 CPU-hours every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Sendblue Sandboxes
Vercel Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
Free tier
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
Billing
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5
Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
Isolation
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Pause and resume
Sendblue Sandboxes: No
Vercel Sandbox:

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
Storage
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
Free tier
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
Paid plan from
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5
Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000

Platform

Isolation
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Sendblue Sandboxes: No
Vercel Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code

Trust

License
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Sendblue Sandboxes
Vercel Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
Vercel Sandbox: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
Vercel Sandbox: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660
Vercel Sandbox: $0.682

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Sendblue Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.330 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Vercel Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related