Shardflux vs Solari

Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Shardflux

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
30-day Pro trial, no card needed
Max session
Not listed

Solari

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

What is different

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

Shardflux
Solari
vCPU, per hour
Shardflux: $0.04
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Shardflux: $0.015
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Shardflux: Free
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Shardflux: $9 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Solari: Per second
Largest sandbox
Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Shardflux: Up to 200
Solari: Up to 10
Isolation
Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Shardflux: $0.04
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Shardflux: $0.015
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Shardflux: Free
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Shardflux: $9 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
Shardflux: Not listed
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
Shardflux: After 5 minutes
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Shardflux: Up to 200
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
Shardflux:
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
Shardflux:
Solari:
Pause and resume
Shardflux:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Shardflux: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
Shardflux: Not listed
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Shardflux
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Shardflux: $0.070
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Shardflux: $0.140
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Shardflux: $0.280
Solari: $0.342

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Shardflux fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.140 against $0.171 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Solari fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need HIPAA.

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