# Bot Perch > A plain-language guide to cloud sandbox providers for people running AI agents: what each feature means, what to check, and who to pick for which situation. Covers 16 providers, 16 features, 78 capability checks and 10 use-case guides. Every claim has a source URL, an exact quote and a confidence tag. Prices checked 2026-10-29. The HTML pages work without JavaScript, but these plain files are smaller and carry the same facts. Prices are list rates in US dollars excluding tax; "not published" means the provider says nothing, never an estimate. ## Data - [Provider index](https://botperch.com/data/index.json): every provider with its one-liner and links to its files - Per provider: `https://botperch.com/data/providers/.md` (readable profile, costs, features, capabilities, company, sources) and `https://botperch.com/data/providers/.json` (the full record, rate card and doc links) - [Use-case guides](https://botperch.com/data/use-cases.md): what each agent job needs and how to run it on each provider; one file each at `https://botperch.com/data/use-cases/.md` - [Features](https://botperch.com/data/features.md) ([JSON](https://botperch.com/data/features.json)): what each feature means and each provider's key figure - [Capabilities](https://botperch.com/data/capabilities.md) ([JSON](https://botperch.com/data/capabilities.json)): yes / partly / no per provider, with the catch - [Monthly cost by use case](https://botperch.com/data/rankings.md) and [preset workloads](https://botperch.com/data/presets.json); per preset: `https://botperch.com/data/rankings/.json` - [Glossary](https://botperch.com/data/glossary.md) - [Everything in one file](https://botperch.com/llms-full.txt) ## Providers - [Agent 37](https://botperch.com/data/providers/agent37.md): Hosted Linux computers for agents, sold two ways: a prepaid Cloud API and a one-click personal-agent subscription. - [Blaxel](https://botperch.com/data/providers/blaxel.md): MicroVM sandboxes billed by allocated RAM, now part of Baseten. - [Boat](https://botperch.com/data/providers/boat.md): Ubuntu VMs in the EU, billed per second, with seven coding agents preinstalled and no pause at all. - [boxd](https://botperch.com/data/providers/boxd.md): KVM machines in the EU that boot in milliseconds, snapshot with memory, fork live, and hibernate when idle. - [Cloudflare Sandbox](https://botperch.com/data/providers/cloudflare-sandbox.md): A Worker that starts a Firecracker microVM, with no public port, no region pinning, and a disk that is wiped when the instance stops. - [Daytona](https://botperch.com/data/providers/daytona.md): Linux containers by default and real VMs on request, with a 15-minute idle stop, a 10 GiB disk cap and two regions. - [E2B](https://botperch.com/data/providers/e2b.md): Firecracker microVMs and templates for agent code, sold per running second. - [InstaBox](https://botperch.com/data/providers/instabox.md): Firecracker machines with a browser desktop, sold as a subscription that is also a monthly credit. - [Lizard](https://botperch.com/data/providers/lizard.md): Firecracker sandboxes at a flat hourly price per size, plus an app platform for whatever the agent builds. - [Modal](https://botperch.com/data/providers/modal.md): gVisor containers by default with a five-minute lifetime, no pause at all, and a CPU unit that may be one or two vCPUs depending on which reading you trust. - [Morph](https://botperch.com/data/providers/morph.md): Full VMs with memory-and-disk snapshots, branched into parallel copies, billed in MCUs. - [Runtime](https://botperch.com/data/providers/runtime.md): Firecracker microVMs billed on measured CPU, with the strongest secret handling in this set. - [Sandboxer](https://botperch.com/data/providers/sandboxer.md): Whole Ubuntu microVMs billed per second, sold through monthly plans whose dollars come back as machine time. - [Sprites](https://botperch.com/data/providers/sprites.md): Persistent Fly.io microVMs that suspend after about 30 seconds idle and bill measured CPU and memory. - [Tensorlake](https://botperch.com/data/providers/tensorlake.md): Firecracker microVMs that keep their memory across a pause, sold as prepaid credits or a $250 Pro plan. - [Vercel Sandbox](https://botperch.com/data/providers/vercel-sandbox.md): Firecracker microVMs inside Vercel, billed on active CPU and provisioned memory. ## Use cases - [Run a Hermes agent](https://botperch.com/data/use-cases/hermes-agent.md): I want a personal assistant that answers me on Telegram, remembers what I tell it and runs jobs on a schedule. - [Run an OpenClaw agent](https://botperch.com/data/use-cases/openclaw.md): I want OpenClaw answering me on WhatsApp or Slack, with its own browser and memory, without keeping my laptop on. - [Give a coding agent its own machine](https://botperch.com/data/use-cases/coding-agent.md): I want Claude Code or Codex to work on my code in the cloud, not on my laptop. - [Run code inside your own product](https://botperch.com/data/use-cases/code-interpreter.md): My app lets users or an LLM run code, and I need somewhere safe to run it. - [Run a browser or computer-use agent](https://botperch.com/data/use-cases/browser-agent.md): I want an agent that opens websites, clicks and fills in forms, or uses a whole desktop. - [Host your own n8n](https://botperch.com/data/use-cases/workflow-automation.md): I want n8n running my automations around the clock, on a server I control, without paying per workflow run. - [Host your own Discord or Slack bot](https://botperch.com/data/use-cases/chat-bot.md): I wrote a bot that answers questions in our Discord or Slack using an AI model, and I need somewhere for it to live. - [Give a small team Claude Code in the cloud](https://botperch.com/data/use-cases/claude-code-team.md): Three to five of us want Claude Code running on cloud machines, each with our own login, without sharing one account. - [Run a scraper on a schedule](https://botperch.com/data/use-cases/scheduled-scraper.md): I want a script that checks a few websites four times a day and saves what it finds, without paying for a machine that sits idle. - [Host your own MCP server](https://botperch.com/data/use-cases/mcp-server.md): I built tools for Claude as an MCP server, and I want it at a web address so Claude can use them without anything running on my laptop. ## Notes - About and publisher: https://botperch.com/about/ - Method and limits: https://botperch.com/how-we-checked/ - How costs are calculated: https://botperch.com/costs/how-it-works/ - Source code and data: https://github.com/WyrdWerk/sandbox-guide - Report a mistake: https://github.com/WyrdWerk/sandbox-guide/issues