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78 sandbox providers you can use instead of Modal. Agent37 Cloud has the lowest hourly price, $0.006 for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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78 alternatives to Modal
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Agent37 Cloud
Persistent Linux sandboxes and VMs for code and agents.Lowest hourly priceNo session limitgVisor$0.006per hour
$0.010per hour
Lizard Sandboxes
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.No session limitFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.016per hour
$0.018per hour
$0.029per hour
Celesto Cloud
Cloud computers for AI agents, each in a microVM.MicroVMLower vCPU priceSnapshot and resume keep processes intact$0.030per hour
$0.045per hour
Mosaic Sandbox
Linux microVM sandboxes for coding agents.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceRestore sandboxes from a saved snapshot.$0.050per hour
Bunny Sandbox
Isolated cloud sandboxes for AI agents, run on gVisor.Bills active CPU onlygVisorLower vCPU price$0.060per hour
Sandbox0
Long-running agent sandboxes with durable storage.Bills on memory onlyNo session limitgVisor$0.060per hour
$0.062per hour
Northflank Sandboxes
MicroVM sandboxes for running untrusted code.MicroVMLower vCPU priceSOC 2 Type II$0.067per hour
Prime Sandboxes
Isolated microVM sandboxes for AI agents and RL.No session limitMicroVMLower vCPU price$0.090per hour
Sandbox as a Service
Dedicated virtual machine sandboxes for AI agents.Full VMLower vCPU priceREST API only$0.090per hour
Oblien Workspace
Hosted microVM workspaces for AI agents.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.092per hour
$0.099per hour
$0.100per hour
$0.101per hour
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox
Serverless container sandboxes for AI task execution.ContainerLower vCPU price$0.103per hour
$0.105per hour
$0.110per hour
Novita Sandbox
Cloud sandboxes for AI agents to run code and browsers.Lower vCPU price2 regions$100 promotional credit$0.117per hour
CreateOS Sandbox
Hosted Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.No session limitFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.119per hour
Caged
Isolated microVM sandboxes that record every agent action.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceFree plan, 5 sandboxes a day$0.120per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agents and their code.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.126per hour
Freestyle VMs
Full Linux virtual machines for AI agents.Full VMLower vCPU price10 on Free, 1,000 on Hobby, 12,000 on Pro$0.132per hour
Docker Sandboxes
Cloud microVM sandboxes for coding agents, run by Docker.MicroVMLower vCPU priceManaged through the API$0.140per hour
Together Sandbox
Isolated runtime environments for code from AI agents.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceSnapshot on termination keeps state$0.149per hour
$0.149per hour
boxd
Persistent Linux machines for devs and AI agents.MicroVMLower vCPU priceFork, snapshots, and checkpoints$0.150per hour
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
Isolated cloud VMs that run commands for AI agents.Full VMLower vCPU priceMemory snapshots$0.150per hour
BoxLite Cloud
Hosted microVM boxes for AI agents, with an SDK.MicroVMLower vCPU priceDisabled on Cloud$0.158per hour
Fly.io Sprites
Persistent Linux computers that sleep when idle.Bills active CPU onlyMicroVMLower vCPU price$0.165per hour
Blaxel
Sandboxes that pause when idle and resume with state.Bills on memory onlyNo session limitMicroVM$0.166per hour
Daytona
Stateful sandboxes that boot from OCI-compliant images.No session limitContainerLower vCPU price$0.166per hour
Declaw
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.FirecrackerLower vCPU price$100 sandbox credit, one time$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
InstaVM
Hardware-isolated microVMs for AI agent code.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceFork any sandbox, rewind any run$0.166per hour
Leap0
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI-generated code.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceMemory and disk state$0.166per hour
Runta
Isolated computers where AI agents work and keep state.Full VMLower vCPU priceCheckpoints restore into new runtimes$0.166per hour
Superserve
Firecracker microVM sandboxes that pause and resume.No session limitFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.166per hour
Tenki Sandbox
Disposable Linux VMs for AI agents, driven by SDK or CLI.Full VMLower vCPU priceDisk and memory$0.166per hour
Thunder Sandboxes
Isolated, short-lived sandboxes for agents, GPU optional.FirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.166per hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.Bills active CPU onlyNo session limitFirecracker$0.173per hour
$0.179per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox
Containers at the edge, driven from a Worker.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.180per hour
LangSmith Sandboxes
Isolated sandboxes for running agent-generated code.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceFrom Docker images or running sandboxes$0.189per hour
$0.200per hour
Tensorlake Sandboxes
MicroVM sandboxes for AI agents and AI-generated code.Bills active CPU onlyNo session limitMicroVM$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
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter
Managed code sandboxes for AI agents on AWS.Bills active CPU onlyMicroVMLower RAM price$0.217per hour
Beam Sandboxes
Cloud sandboxes for running AI-generated code.No session limitContainerLower vCPU price$0.227per hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Serverless microVMs on AWS that suspend when idle.FirecrackerLower RAM priceImage snapshot of an initialized app$0.252per hour
Deno Sandbox
Linux microVMs for running untrusted and generated code.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerRead-only images made from volumes$0.300per hour
Islo Sandboxes
Persistent microVM computers for coding agents.MicroVMLower vCPU priceStarting credit, no card required$0.300per hour
$0.317per hour
Vercel Sandbox
Isolated Linux microVMs for running untrusted code.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.341per hour
Railway Sandboxes
Isolated Linux VMs you create on demand and destroy.Bills active CPU onlyFull VMLower vCPU price$0.417per hour
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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agent workloads.MicroVMCheckpoint and restore of memory stateNot listedper hour
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions
Isolated sandbox sessions for running code on Azure.Full VM38 regionsNot listedper hour
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
Isolated microVM sandboxes that start on demand.MicroVMMemory and disk; restore in under a second40 regionsNot listedper hour
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CoreWeave Sandboxes
Isolated environments for running untrusted code.MicroVMFilesystem snapshots, restore or forkNot listedper hour
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microsandbox cloud
Hosted microVM sandboxes for AI agents and untrusted code.MicroVMDisk only, from stopped persistent sandboxesNot listedper hour
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Nebius Sandboxes
Sandboxes for AI agents that branch from any checkpoint.MicroVMSaves filesystem state as an image, not running processes.Not listedper hour
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RemoteHost
Persistent, hardware-isolated microVMs for coding agents.Firecracker3 regions7-day free trialNot listedper hour
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Unikraft Cloud
MicroVM sandboxes that start in under 10 ms.FirecrackerSnapshot history and rollback on Pro5 regionsNot listedper hour
Vers
Linux computers you can branch, checkpoint, and restore.Full VMLower vCPU priceCommits and checkpointsNot listedper hour
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Isolation
vCPU / hr
GiB / hr
Free tier
Max session
GPU

- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.071
- Free tier
- $30 / month

- 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
- $0.008
- Free tier
- 7-day trial

- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.009
- Free tier
- Free trial with 25 hours

- 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
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- Included
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.015
- Free tier
- $5 credit each month

- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.017
- Free tier
- Not listed

- 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
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.029
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Container
- 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
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.044
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- Free plan

- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.070
- Free tier
- One-time promotional credit for cloud compute

- 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
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.039
- Free tier
- $30 trial credit

- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Included
- Free tier
- Credit of up to $200

- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $200 credit

- 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
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $50 credit

- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit

- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.051
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.054
- Free tier
- $5.40 / month

- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.045
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.072
- Free tier
- None

- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.058
- Free tier
- 8 LSU a month

- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.100
- Free tier
- $10 credit

- Isolation
- MicroVM
- 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
- $0.090
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.068
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.100
- Free tier
- Not listed

- 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
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.128
- Free tier
- 5 CPU-hrs / mo

- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.069
- Free tier
- $5 credit

- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $10 credit

- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Not listed
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- 20 free hours

- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Free tier

- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- 3 agents, forever

- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- 30-day free trial

- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed

- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- 7-day trial

- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- None

- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Hobby plan, free forever

- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- Starting credit