Superserve vs Upstash Box

Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Superserve runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Upstash Box runs containers.

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Superserve

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Upstash Box

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

What is different

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

Superserve
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
Superserve: $0.0504
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Superserve: $0.0162
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Billing
Superserve: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
Superserve: Firecracker microVM
Upstash Box: Container
Integrations
Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Superserve: $0.0504
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Superserve: $0.0162
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Superserve: Not listed
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Superserve: Pay as you go
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Superserve: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Superserve: No limit
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
Superserve: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Superserve: Not listed
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Superserve: Firecracker microVM
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
Superserve: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
Superserve:
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
Superserve:
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
Superserve: Python, TypeScript
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code

Trust

License
Superserve: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
Superserve:
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Superserve
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Superserve: $0.083
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Superserve: $0.166
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Superserve: $0.331
Upstash Box: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Superserve fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use the Vercel AI SDK.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 2 GiB.

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