StateSet Sandbox vs Zipbox
StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour and Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor and limits a session to 24 hours. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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StateSet Sandbox
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- $25 trial credit, no card
- 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
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
StateSet Sandbox
Zipbox
- vCPU, per hour
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Zipbox: Included
- Free tier
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Billing
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Isolation
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- Snapshots
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Zipbox: No
- SDKs
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
StateSet Sandboxsandbox
Zipboxzipbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
- Zipbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Zipbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
StateSet Sandbox
Zipbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
- Zipbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
- Zipbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.028
- Zipbox: $0.027
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
StateSet Sandbox fits when
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
Zipbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- 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 $0.014 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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