Self-hosted xShellz Agent Shell alternatives
20 self-hosted sandbox providers you can use instead of xShellz Agent Shell. StateSet Sandbox has the lowest hourly price, $0.014 for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB. Orgo, Beam Sandboxes and Unikraft Cloud offer GPUs.
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xShellz Agent Shell, for reference
xShellz Agent ShellAlways-on Linux boxes for AI agents, isolated with gVisor.
IsolationgVisor
2 vCPU · 4 GiBNot listed
Free tier1 small box
Max sessionNo limit
20 self-hosted alternatives to xShellz Agent Shell
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StateSet Sandbox
Sandboxes for AI agents, one Kubernetes pod each, with gVisor isolation.gVisorCheckpoints save and restore sandbox state$25 trial credit, no card$0.014per hour
$0.060per hour
Vers
Linux computers you can branch, checkpoint, and restore.Full VMCommits and checkpointsStarting credit$0.080per hour
Novita Sandbox
Cloud sandboxes for AI agents to run code and browsers.DesktopKeeps filesystem and memory. v2 region only2 regions$0.117per hour
$0.128per hour
Everstack
Open-source platform that runs isolated sandboxes for AI agents.DesktopSnapshots and templates$5 credit, valid 30 days after signup$0.133per hour
$0.150per hour
$0.158per hour
microsandbox cloud
Hosted microVM sandboxes for AI agents and untrusted code.MicroVMDisk 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 onlyMicroVMCheckpoints keep disk, RAM and processes. Branch makes live copy-on-write clones.$0.165per hour
$0.166per hour
Leap0
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for running untrusted code.DesktopFirecrackerMemory and disk state$0.166per hour
Superserve
Firecracker microVM sandboxes that pause and resume.DesktopFirecracker$5 to start, plus $95 when you add billing$0.166per hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.Bills active CPU onlyFirecracker$5.40 usage credit every month$0.173per hour
LangSmith Sandboxes
Isolated sandboxes for running agent-generated code.FirecrackerFrom Docker images or running sandboxes4 regions$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
Beam Sandboxes
Isolated, secure environments for running untrusted code at scale.GPUContainerFilesystem or live memory$0.227per hour
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Provider
Isolation
vCPU / hr
GiB / hr
Free tier
Max session
GPU
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- 1 small box
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.006
- Free tier
- $25 credit
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.030
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- Starting credit
- Isolation
- Not listed
- vCPU / hr
- $0.035
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- Free demo
- Isolation
- Not listed
- vCPU / hr
- $0.067
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.047
- Free tier
- $30 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- 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
- Free during public preview
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $5 to start, plus $95 when you add billing
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.054
- Free tier
- $5.40 / month
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.058
- Free tier
- 8 LSU a month
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.100
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.068
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- None
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Hobby plan, free forever
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