Solari vs Zipbox

Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour and Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Solari

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

Zipbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Solari
Zipbox
vCPU, per hour
Solari: $0.0525
Zipbox: $0.00685
RAM, per GiB-hour
Solari: $0.0165
Zipbox: Included
Storage
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Zipbox: Free
Free tier
Solari: $3 credit every month
Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Paid plan from
Solari: $20 / month
Zipbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Solari: Per second
Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Max session
Solari: 24 hours
Zipbox: No limit
Largest sandbox
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots
Solari:
Zipbox: No
Pause and resume
Solari:
Zipbox: No
Integrations
Solari: MCP, Claude Code
Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Solari: $0.0525
Zipbox: $0.00685
RAM, per GiB-hour
Solari: $0.0165
Zipbox: Included
Storage
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Zipbox: Free
Free tier
Solari: $3 credit every month
Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Paid plan from
Solari: $20 / month
Zipbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Solari: Per second
Zipbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Solari: 24 hours
Zipbox: No limit
Idle stop
Solari: Not listed
Zipbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Solari: Up to 10
Zipbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Solari: Not listed
Zipbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Solari:
Zipbox: No
Pause and resume
Solari:
Zipbox: No

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Solari
Zipbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Solari: $0.086
Zipbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Solari: $0.171
Zipbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Solari: $0.342
Zipbox: $0.027

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Solari fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 6 vCPU · 16 GiB.

Zipbox fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.171 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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