Shellbox vs Tensorlake Sandboxes
Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker 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.
Shellbox
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Shellbox: $0.01
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: Included
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
- Idle stop
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Shellbox: Up to 16
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- Integrations
- Shellbox: Claude Code
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Shellbox: $0.01
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: Included
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Shellbox: No limit
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Shellbox: Up to 16
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Shellbox:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Shellbox:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Shellbox: Claude Code
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: AWS, GCP, Azure, CoreWeave, Nebius or bare metal
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Shellbox
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Shellbox: $0.010
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Shellbox: $0.020
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shellbox: $0.040
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Shellbox fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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