Shellbox vs StateSet Sandbox
Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
StateSet Sandbox
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- $25 trial credit, no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Shellbox
StateSet Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Shellbox: $0.01
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: Included
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Billing
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
- Max session
- Shellbox: No limit
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Shellbox: Up to 16
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
- Isolation
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- Integrations
- Shellbox: Claude Code
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Shellboxshellbox
StateSet Sandboxsandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Shellbox: $0.01
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: Included
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Storage
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Free tier
- Shellbox: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Paid plan from
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Shellbox: No limit
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Shellbox: Up to 16
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- GPU
- Shellbox: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Shellbox:
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Shellbox:
- StateSet Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Shellbox: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Shellbox: Claude Code
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Shellbox: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Shellbox: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Shellbox
StateSet Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Shellbox: $0.010
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Shellbox: $0.020
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shellbox: $0.040
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.028
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Shellbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
StateSet Sandbox fits when
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.020 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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