Solari vs Upstash Box

Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Upstash Box runs containers.

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Solari

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

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Solari
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
Solari: $0.0525
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Solari: $0.0165
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Solari: $3 credit every month
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Solari: $20 / month
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Solari: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Concurrent sandboxes
Solari: Up to 10
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Isolation
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Upstash Box: Container
SDKs
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Solari: MCP, Claude Code
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Solari: $0.0525
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Solari: $0.0165
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Solari: $3 credit every month
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Solari: $20 / month
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Solari: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Solari: 24 hours
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
Solari: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Solari: Up to 10
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
Solari: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
Solari:
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
Solari:
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Solari: MCP, Claude Code
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code, MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Solari
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Solari: $0.086
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Solari: $0.171
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Solari: $0.342
Upstash Box: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Solari fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.171 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need GDPR.

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