Shardflux vs Tensorlake Sandboxes
Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Shardflux
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Shardflux: $0.04
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- Storage
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Largest sandbox
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Shardflux: Up to 200
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Shardfluxshardflux
Tensorlake Sandboxestensorlake
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Shardflux: $0.04
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Shardflux: Up to 200
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Shardflux:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Shardflux:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Shardflux:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Shardflux
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Shardflux: $0.070
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Shardflux: $0.140
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shardflux: $0.280
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Shardflux fits when
- You use Claude Code or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.140 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 64 GiB.
Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.
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