Upstash Box vs xShellz Agent Shell

Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Upstash Box runs containers. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor and has no session limit.

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Upstash Box

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

xShellz Agent Shell

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Upstash Box
xShellz Agent Shell
Storage
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Billing
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
Isolation
Upstash Box: Container
xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
SDKs
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Integrations
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code, MCP
xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Upstash Box: $0.10
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: Included
xShellz Agent Shell: Included
Storage
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Billing
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Upstash Box: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
Idle stop
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Upstash Box: Container
xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
GPU
Upstash Box: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Snapshots
Upstash Box:
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Pause and resume
Upstash Box:
xShellz Agent Shell:

Developer

SDKs
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Integrations
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code, MCP
xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Upstash Box: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
BYOC
Upstash Box: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Upstash Box
xShellz Agent Shell
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Upstash Box: $0.100
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Upstash Box: $0.200
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Upstash Box: $0.400
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Upstash Box fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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