xShellz Agent Shell vs Zipbox
Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor and has no session limit. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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xShellz Agent Shell
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- 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
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
xShellz Agent Shell
Zipbox
- Free tier
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Largest sandbox
- xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- Pause and resume
- xShellz Agent Shell:
- Zipbox: No
- SDKs
- xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- xShellz Agent Shell: 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
xShellz Agent Shellxshellz
Zipboxzipbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- xShellz Agent Shell: Included
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
- Zipbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
- Zipbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- xShellz Agent Shell:
- Zipbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
xShellz Agent Shell
Zipbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.027
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
xShellz Agent Shell fits when
- You need pause and resume.
- You need GDPR.
Zipbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- 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 need a desktop in the sandbox.
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