Lower-priced Apify AI Code Sandbox alternatives
91 lower-priced sandbox providers you can use instead of Apify AI Code Sandbox. Agent37 Cloud has the lowest hourly price, $0.006 for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB. Hugging Face Sandboxes, Koyeb Sandboxes, tama, Orgo, Northflank Sandboxes, Freestyle VMs, Shardflux, Hyperbrowser Sandboxes, Daytona, Thunder Sandboxes, Tensorlake Sandboxes, Beam Sandboxes, Modal and CoreWeave Sandboxes offer GPUs.
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Apify AI Code Sandbox, for reference
Apify AI Code SandboxApify Actor that runs AI-generated code in an isolated container, with MCP, REST API and shell access.
IsolationContainer
2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.800 / hr
Free tier$5 / mo
Max sessionNo limit
91 lower-priced alternatives to Apify AI Code Sandbox
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Agent37 Cloud
Persistent Linux sandboxes and VMs for code and agents.Lowest hourly priceDesktopgVisor$0.006per hour
$0.010per hour
Krova Cloud
Firecracker microVMs with root access, billed by the minute.FirecrackerLower RAM priceAutomatic snapshots on a tier schedule, plus manual ones$0.012per hour
Zipbox
Long-lived Firecracker microVMs for AI agents, each with its own desktop.DesktopFirecrackerNo named snapshots or templates$0.014per hour
StateSet Sandbox
Sandboxes for AI agents, one Kubernetes pod each, with gVisor isolation.gVisorLower RAM priceCheckpoints save and restore sandbox state$0.014per hour
Lizard Sandboxes
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.DesktopFirecrackerMemory and files; restore to new sandboxes$0.016per hour
$0.018per hour
Shellbox
Linux microVMs for developers and AI agents, made and controlled over SSH.FirecrackerDuplicate copies a stopped box with its memory snapshot1 regions$0.020per hour
$0.029per hour
Celesto Cloud
Cloud computers for AI agents, each in a microVM.DesktopMicroVMSnapshot and resume keep processes intact$0.030per hour
$0.045per hour
Mosaic Sandbox
Linux microVM sandboxes for coding agents.FirecrackerRestore sandboxes from a saved snapshot.2 regions$0.050per hour
Bunny Sandbox
Isolated cloud sandboxes for AI agents, run on gVisor.Bills active CPU onlygVisorLower RAM price$0.060per hour
$0.060per hour
$0.060per hour
Sailboxes
Persistent Linux VMs for long-horizon AI agents.Full VMLower RAM price$5 credit every month$0.062per hour
$0.067per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agents, with E2B SDK support.DesktopMicroVMLower RAM price$0.071per hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Lightweight virtual machines that run a container image in their own kernel and pause when idle.FirecrackerLower RAM priceCheckpoints save memory and disk$0.078per hour
Runtime
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents, billed on the CPU that code uses.Bills active CPU onlyDesktopFirecracker$0.080per hour
Vers
Linux computers you can branch, checkpoint, and restore.Full VMCommits and checkpointsStarting credit$0.080per hour
Buddy Sandboxes
Persistent Linux VMs that AI agents create and control through an API, SDK, CLI or MCP.Full VMLower RAM priceNo expiry. A snapshot stays after its sandbox is deleted$0.086per hour
Prime Sandboxes
Isolated microVM sandboxes for AI agents and RL.MicroVMLower RAM priceFilesystem checkpoints and forks. Files only, not running processes or memory$0.090per hour
Sandbox as a Service
Dedicated virtual machine sandboxes for AI agents.Full VMREST API only. Kept 7 days, up to 3 per account. Restores files, not processes1 regions$0.090per hour
$0.092per hour- $0.099per hour
MIOSA
Cloud sandboxes and persistent computers that AI agents use to build and run software.DesktopFirecracker3 regions$0.099per hour
Anthropic Code Execution
Sandboxed Python and bash containers that Claude runs through the Anthropic API.Container1,550 free hours per monthSOC 2 Type II$0.100per hour
$0.100per hour
$0.101per hour
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox
Isolated microVM sandboxes for AI inference, reinforcement learning and model evaluation.DesktopMicroVMLower RAM price$0.103per hour
exe.dev
Disposable VMs for AI agents, billed by the second.Full VM9 regions7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription$0.105per hour
$0.110per hour
Novita Sandbox
Cloud sandboxes for AI agents to run code and browsers.DesktopLower RAM priceKeeps filesystem and memory. v2 region only$0.117per hour
CreateOS Sandbox
Hosted Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.DesktopFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.119per hour
Caged
Isolated microVM sandboxes that record every agent action.FirecrackerFree plan, 5 sandboxes a day$0.120per hour
$0.120per hourDigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agents and their code.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.126per hour
Collimate
Live-fork microVM sandboxes for RL post-training and coding agents.FirecrackerLower RAM priceDemo key, free with no card$0.128per hour
Prized Sandboxes
Linux microVMs in beta that your code creates, runs commands in, pauses, forks and deletes.FirecrackerLower RAM price1 regions$0.130per hour
EQVPS Sandboxes
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents, paid per second from a prepaid crypto balance.FirecrackerLower RAM price$0.132per hour
$0.132per hour
Everstack
Open-source platform that runs isolated sandboxes for AI agents.DesktopSnapshots and templates$0.133per hour
Docker Sandboxes
Cloud microVM sandboxes for coding agents, run by Docker.MicroVMManaged through the API$25 credit, one time$0.140per hour
Shardflux
Serverless VMs for cloud agents that park when idle and keep their state.Bills active CPU onlyGPUDesktop$0.140per hour
Together Sandbox
Isolated runtime environments for code from AI agents.FirecrackerLower RAM priceSnapshot on termination keeps state$0.149per hour
Dedalus Machines
Linux virtual machines for AI agents that sleep when idle.Full VMLower RAM price$20 one-time sign-up credit$0.149per hour
$0.150per hour
$0.150per hour
BoxLite Cloud
Hosted microVM boxes for AI agents, with an SDK.MicroVMLower RAM priceDisabled on Cloud$0.158per hour
Fly.io Sprites
Persistent Linux computers that sleep when idle.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.165per hour
microsandbox cloud
Hosted microVM sandboxes for AI agents and untrusted code.MicroVMLower RAM priceDisk only, from stopped persistent sandboxes$0.165per hour
Smol Machines
Hosted Linux microVMs with their own kernel, for agents and untrusted code.Bills active CPU onlyMicroVMLower RAM price$0.165per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
Declaw
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.FirecrackerLower RAM price$100 sandbox credit, one time$0.166per hour
E2B
Open-source sandbox platform that gives AI agents isolated machines.DesktopFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
Runta
Isolated computers where AI agents work and keep state.DesktopLower RAM priceCheckpoints restore into new runtimes$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
Thunder Sandboxes
Isolated, short-lived sandboxes for agents, GPU optional.GPUFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.166per hour
Solari
One API for cloud browsers, headless microVM sandboxes and desktop VMs for AI agents.DesktopCloud HypervisorLower RAM price$0.171per hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.173per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox
Linux sandboxes that run untrusted or generated code, driven from a Worker.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.180per hour
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
Isolated microVMs for AI agents that fork from a saved snapshot, part of SF Compute Autoresearch.MicroVMLower RAM priceKeeps memory and running processes. Up to 256 forks per call.$0.183per hour
LangSmith Sandboxes
Isolated sandboxes for running agent-generated code.FirecrackerLower RAM priceFrom Docker images or running sandboxes$0.189per hour
BoxCompute
Linux VM sandboxes for AI agents, hosted in Malaysia.DesktopFull VMNo snapshots, checkpoints or forks in the public API$0.200per hour
Tensorlake Sandboxes
MicroVM sandboxes for AI agents and AI-generated code.Bills active CPU onlyGPUDesktop$0.200per hour
Upstash Box
Isolated cloud containers that give AI agents a computer.Bills active CPU onlyContainer1 regions$0.200per hour
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Code Execution
Managed sandboxes that run code for AI agents.ContainerLower RAM priceNot for Code Execution sandboxes$0.206per hour
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
Isolated microVM sandboxes that start on demand.MicroVMLower RAM priceMemory and disk$0.216per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter
Managed code sandboxes for AI agents on AWS.Bills active CPU onlyMicroVMLower RAM price$0.217per hourAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Hosts AI agents on AWS and runs each user session in its own microVM.Bills active CPU onlyMicroVMLower RAM price$0.217per hour
Beam Sandboxes
Isolated, secure environments for running untrusted code at scale.GPUContainerLower RAM price$0.227per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Isolated cloud sandboxes for agent work, controlled from a TypeScript SDK.FirecrackerLower RAM priceCan be forked into a new sandbox$0.238per hour
$0.238per hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Runs your AI agent code on Azure, with each session in its own microVM.MicroVMLower RAM price31 regions$0.246per hourAWS Lambda MicroVMs
Serverless microVMs on AWS that suspend when idle.FirecrackerLower RAM priceImage snapshot of an initialized app$0.252per hour
boxes.dev
Cloud computers for Claude Code and Codex.Files and memory of the Template boxTrial, $0, 20 hours of compute included$0.300per hour
Deno Sandbox
Linux microVMs for running untrusted and generated code.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.300per hour
Islo Machines
Persistent microVM computers for coding agents.MicroVMLower RAM priceStarting credit, no card required$0.300per hour
$0.317per hour
Sendblue Sandboxes
Isolated cloud Linux machines that AI agents control over an HTTP API.Container$100 free compute, once per phone numberSOC 2 Type II$0.330per hour
$0.341per hour
Vercel Sandbox
Isolated Linux microVMs for running untrusted code.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.341per hour
Depot Sandboxes
Linux microVMs for code, tests and agents, made and run from a Node.js SDK.MicroVMSaves files in the home directory and /workspace, not memory or processes. Up to 25 GiB7-day free trial, no credit card$0.360per hour
OpenAI Code Interpreter
Sandboxed containers where OpenAI models write and run Python code.ContainerLower RAM priceSOC 2 Type II$0.360per hour
Railway Sandboxes
Isolated Linux VMs you create on demand and destroy.Bills active CPU onlyFull VMLower RAM price$0.417per hour
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Isolation
vCPU / hr
GiB / hr
Free tier
Max session
GPU
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- Included
- Free tier
- $5 / mo
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.001
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.005
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.001
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.007
- Free tier
- $25 credit
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.006
- Free tier
- $25 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.008
- Free tier
- 7-day trial
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.009
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial with 25 hours of compute
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.010
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.014
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.015
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.012
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.025
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.020
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.030
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- Included
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.015
- Free tier
- $5 credit each month
- Isolation
- Cloud Hypervisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.017
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.018
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.022
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.025
- Free tier
- 100 free hours
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- Starting credit
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.014
- Free tier
- $1 / mo
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.020
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.045
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.030
- Free tier
- Free tier, no credit card
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.027
- Free tier
- Free Basic plan
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $1 / month
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- 1,550 hours / month
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.029
- Free tier
- None
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.035
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.053
- Free tier
- 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.025
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Isolation
- Not listed
- vCPU / hr
- $0.035
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.036
- Free tier
- 500 free credits
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.060
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.060
- Free tier
- 30-day free trial
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.044
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- Free demo
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- $30 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- $1 credit
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- Not listed
- vCPU / hr
- $0.067
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.070
- Free tier
- $25 credit, one time
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- 30 days of Pro
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.045
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.045
- Free tier
- $20 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.047
- Free tier
- $30 credit
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.045
- Free tier
- 5,000 credits
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.039
- Free tier
- $30 trial credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Included
- Free tier
- Credit of up to $200
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $200 free compute
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $200 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Free during public preview
- Isolation
- Not listed
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $5 to start, plus $95 when you add billing
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.051
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Cloud Hypervisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.053
- Free tier
- $3 / mo credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.054
- Free tier
- $5.40 / month
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.072
- Free tier
- None
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Included
- Free tier
- None
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.058
- Free tier
- 8 LSU a month
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.100
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.070
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.100
- Free tier
- 5 CPU hours per month
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.085
- Free tier
- 50 vCPU-hours and 100 GiB-hours free per month
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.086
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.090
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.090
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.068
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.072
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.071
- Free tier
- $30 / month
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.099
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.100
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Not listed
- vCPU / hr
- $0.150
- Free tier
- 20 free hours
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.100
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.070
- Free tier
- Credits to start
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.108
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.165
- Free tier
- $100 free compute
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.128
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.128
- Free tier
- 5 CPU-hrs / mo
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.180
- Free tier
- 7-day trial
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.069
- Free tier
- $5 credit
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