Solari vs Vercel Sandbox

Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour and Vercel Sandbox costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Vercel Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Solari

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

Vercel Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
5 CPU-hours every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Solari
Vercel Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Solari: $0.0525
Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Solari: $0.0165
Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
Storage
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Vercel Sandbox: Snapshots $0.08 per GB-month. Drives $0.05 per GB-month in iad1, plus reads and writes. Hobby includes 15 GB of each.
Free tier
Solari: $3 credit every month
Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
Billing
Solari: Per second
Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Concurrent sandboxes
Solari: Up to 10
Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
Isolation
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Solari: MCP, Claude Code
Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Solari: $0.0525
Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Solari: $0.0165
Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
Storage
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Vercel Sandbox: Snapshots $0.08 per GB-month. Drives $0.05 per GB-month in iad1, plus reads and writes. Hobby includes 15 GB of each.
Free tier
Solari: $3 credit every month
Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
Paid plan from
Solari: $20 / month
Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Solari: Per second
Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Solari: 24 hours
Vercel Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
Solari: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Solari: Up to 10
Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Solari
Vercel Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Solari: $0.086
Vercel Sandbox: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Solari: $0.171
Vercel Sandbox: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Solari: $0.342
Vercel Sandbox: $0.682

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Solari fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.171 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need HIPAA.

Vercel Sandbox fits when

  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and GDPR.

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