Lower-priced Shellbox alternatives
7 lower-priced sandbox providers you can use instead of Shellbox. Agent37 Cloud has the lowest hourly price, $0.006 for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB. Hugging Face Sandboxes offers GPUs.
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Shellbox, for reference
ShellboxLinux microVMs for developers and AI agents, made and controlled over SSH.
IsolationFirecracker
2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.020 / hr
Free tierNot listed
Max sessionNo limit
7 lower-priced alternatives to Shellbox
Sorted by hourly price for 2 vCPU · 4 GiB, low to high
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Agent37 Cloud
Persistent Linux sandboxes and VMs for code and agents.Lowest hourly priceDesktopgVisor$0.006per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes
Isolated cloud machines for running AI-generated code.GPUFull VMLower vCPU price$0.010per hour
Krova Cloud
Firecracker microVMs with root access, billed by the minute.FirecrackerLower vCPU 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.DesktopFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.014per hour
StateSet Sandbox
Sandboxes for AI agents, one Kubernetes pod each, with gVisor isolation.gVisorLower vCPU priceCheckpoints save and restore sandbox state$0.014per hour
$0.016per hour
$0.018per hour
Side by side
Shellbox first, then the 7 alternatives
Provider
Isolation
vCPU / hr
GiB / hr
Free tier
Max session
GPU
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.010
- Free tier
- Not listed
- 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