Tensorlake Sandboxes vs Zipbox
Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour and Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Tensorlake Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- No limit
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.
Tensorlake Sandboxes
Zipbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Billing
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Snapshots
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Zipbox: No
- SDKs
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: OpenAI Agents SDK
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Zipboxzipbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Zipbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- Zipbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Zipbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: OpenAI Agents SDK
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: AWS, GCP, Azure, CoreWeave, Nebius or bare metal
- Zipbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Tensorlake Sandboxes
Zipbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
- Zipbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
- Zipbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400
- Zipbox: $0.027
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Zipbox fits when
- You use MCP, Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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