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Vercel SandboxAlternatives

Alternatives to Vercel Sandbox

Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVMs inside Vercel, billed on active CPU and provisioned memory. Here is what the other 15 providers cost for the same jobs, and what each does that Vercel Sandbox does not.

Short answer: An always-on personal agent costs $73.12 a month on Vercel Sandbox, which cannot run it exactly as described; 11 providers run it as described for less, cheapest Agent 37 ($10.60), Lizard ($19.00) and Boat ($20.00). For short throwaway runs in a product, 10 cost less than its $42.77. Prices checked 29 October 2026.

Prices checked 29 October 2026Capabilities checked 29 October 2026

Why people look elsewhere

Where Vercel Sandbox fits badly, from its provider page.

  • An always-on agent: the default session timeout is five minutes and the Hobby cap is 45 minutes.
  • A confidential Hobby workload: Hobby content may be used for model training, and the plan is non-commercial.
  • Anything needing SSH, a desktop or a raw TCP inbound port.

The alternatives, cheapest always-on agent first

Monthly machine cost at list prices, before any AI model. ✱ means it cannot run that workload exactly as described; the provider page says why.

ProviderA personal agent that stays on (Hermes, OpenClaw)A coding agent for one developerA code interpreter inside your productA browser agent for a small teamDoes fully, where Vercel Sandbox does not
Vercel Sandbox (for reference)$73.12 ✱$32.91$42.77$462.40—
Agent 37$10.60$6.76$2.42$36.3018: copy a running machine, automatic backups, can stay on indefinitely, choose the idle timeout, …
Lizard$19.00$19.00$19.00$85.7916: pause keeps memory, snapshots with memory, copy a running machine, can stay on indefinitely, …
Boat$20.00$20.00$20.00$90.0017: nested virtualisation, large machines, copy a running machine, can stay on indefinitely, …
InstaBox$20.00$20.00$20.00$90.5015: large machines, private link, real SSH, tunnel to your computer, …
Runtime$24.95$13.49$12.83$157.5032: nested virtualisation, any size you like, large machines, pause keeps memory, …
Sandboxer$40.00$20.00$20.00$100.0018: nested virtualisation, large machines, snapshots with memory, can stay on indefinitely, …
Morph$63.00$32.27$33.33$375.0014: any size you like, pause keeps memory, snapshots with memory, copy a running machine, …
Sprites$77.61$34.15$35.90$485.038: pause keeps memory, private link, tunnel to your computer, outbound data included, …
Cloudflare Sandbox$99.41 ✱$24.20 ✱$37.78$406.038: mount outside storage, automatic HTTPS, outbound data included, limited API keys, …
boxd$110.90$50.80$50.32$754.8020: large machines, pause keeps memory, snapshots with memory, copy a running machine, …
Daytona$122.07 ✱$55.75 ✱$55.38$830.7019: gPUs, copy a running machine, one volume, several machines, mount outside storage, …
Blaxel$123.29$57.79$55.20$828.0014: pause keeps memory, private link, your own domain, automatic HTTPS, …
Modal$143.71 ✱$46.15 ✱$49.32$1,159.8014: any size you like, large machines, gPUs, one volume, several machines, …
Tensorlake$250.00$24.46$28.60$331.0022: nested virtualisation, any size you like, large machines, resize while running, …
E2B
Vercel Sandbox vs E2B		$270.89 ✱$202.99 ✱$55.20$828.0013: pause keeps memory, snapshots with memory, copy a running machine, stored secrets, …

Compare any two or three in full on side by side, or price your own workload in the cost calculator.