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title: Sandbox providers pricing
url: "https://toolweight.dev/compare/sandbox-providers/pricing"
license: CC-BY-4.0
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# Sandbox providers — pricing compared

> Every pricing field in the Sandbox providers registry, sourced and dated.

| Tool | Price / hour (/hr) | Meter | Idle cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| E2B | $0.17 /hr | per-second | storage-only |
| Modal | $0.238 /hr | per-second | active-cpu-only |
| Daytona | $0.17 /hr | per-second | storage-only |
| Fly.io Machines | $0.031 /hr | per-second | free-when-stopped |
| Cloudflare Sandbox | $0.18 /hr | per-10ms | free-when-stopped |
| Vercel Sandbox | $0.341 /hr | per-second | active-cpu-only |
| CodeSandbox SDK | — | per-second | storage-only |
| Northflank | $0.07 /hr | per-minute | full-rate |
| Runloop | — | per-second | storage-only |
| Blaxel | — | per-second | storage-only |
| Freestyle | — | per-request | storage-only |
| Val Town | — | subscription | free-when-stopped |
| Riza | — | per-request | free-when-stopped |
| Namespace | — | per-minute | free-when-stopped |
| GitHub Codespaces | $0.18 /hr | per-minute | storage-only |
| box | — | subscription | — |
| ascii | — | subscription | — |
| exe.dev | — | subscription | — |
| Islo | — | — | — |
| Self-hosted Firecracker | $0.03 /hr | per-hour | full-rate |

## Provenance

| Tool | Field | Value | Confidence | Verified | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| E2B | Price / hour | $0.17 /hr | Inferred | — | — |
| E2B | Meter | per-second | Vendor-claimed | 2026-01-15 | https://e2b.dev/pricing |
| E2B | Idle cost | storage-only | Inferred | — | — |
| Modal | Price / hour | $0.238 /hr | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | https://modal.com/pricing |
| Modal | Meter | per-second | Vendor-claimed | 2026-01-15 | https://modal.com/pricing |
| Modal | Idle cost | active-cpu-only | Inferred | — | — |
| Daytona | Price / hour | $0.17 /hr | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | https://northflank.com/blog/ai-sandbox-pricing |
| Daytona | Meter | per-second | Vendor-claimed | 2026-01-15 | https://www.daytona.io/pricing |
| Daytona | Idle cost | storage-only | Inferred | — | — |
| Fly.io Machines | Price / hour | $0.031 /hr | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ |
| Fly.io Machines | Meter | per-second | Vendor-claimed | 2026-01-15 | https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ |
| Fly.io Machines | Idle cost | free-when-stopped | Vendor-claimed | 2026-01-15 | https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ |
| Cloudflare Sandbox | Price / hour | $0.18 /hr | Inferred | — | — |
| Cloudflare Sandbox | Meter | per-10ms | Vendor-claimed | 2026-01-15 | https://developers.cloudflare.com/containers/pricing/ |
| Cloudflare Sandbox | Idle cost | free-when-stopped | Vendor-claimed | 2026-01-15 | https://developers.cloudflare.com/containers/pricing/ |
| Vercel Sandbox | Price / hour | $0.341 /hr | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | https://vercel.com/docs/sandbox/pricing |
| Vercel Sandbox | Meter | per-second | Vendor-claimed | 2026-01-15 | https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-sandbox |
| Vercel Sandbox | Idle cost | active-cpu-only | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://vercel.com/docs/sandbox/pricing |
| CodeSandbox SDK | Price / hour | — | Unknown | — | — |
| CodeSandbox SDK | Meter | per-second | Inferred | — | — |
| CodeSandbox SDK | Idle cost | storage-only | Inferred | — | — |
| Northflank | Price / hour | $0.07 /hr | Inferred | — | — |
| Northflank | Meter | per-minute | Inferred | — | — |
| Northflank | Idle cost | full-rate | Inferred | — | — |
| Runloop | Price / hour | — | Unknown | — | — |
| Runloop | Meter | per-second | Inferred | — | — |
| Runloop | Idle cost | storage-only | Inferred | — | — |
| Blaxel | Price / hour | — | Unknown | — | — |
| Blaxel | Meter | per-second | Inferred | — | — |
| Blaxel | Idle cost | storage-only | Inferred | — | — |
| Freestyle | Price / hour | — | Unknown | — | — |
| Freestyle | Meter | per-request | Inferred | — | — |
| Freestyle | Idle cost | storage-only | Inferred | — | — |
| Val Town | Price / hour | — | Unknown | — | — |
| Val Town | Meter | subscription | Vendor-claimed | 2026-01-15 | https://www.val.town/pricing |
| Val Town | Idle cost | free-when-stopped | Inferred | — | — |
| Riza | Price / hour | — | Unknown | — | — |
| Riza | Meter | per-request | Inferred | — | — |
| Riza | Idle cost | free-when-stopped | Inferred | — | — |
| Namespace | Price / hour | — | Unknown | — | — |
| Namespace | Meter | per-minute | Inferred | — | — |
| Namespace | Idle cost | free-when-stopped | Inferred | — | — |
| GitHub Codespaces | Price / hour | $0.18 /hr | Vendor-claimed | 2026-01-15 | https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-github-codespaces |
| GitHub Codespaces | Meter | per-minute | Inferred | — | — |
| GitHub Codespaces | Idle cost | storage-only | Vendor-claimed | 2026-01-15 | https://docs.github.com/en/billing |
| box | Price / hour | — | Unknown | — | — |
| box | Meter | subscription | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | https://box.ascii.dev/compare |
| box | Idle cost | — | Unknown | — | — |
| ascii | Price / hour | — | Unknown | — | — |
| ascii | Meter | subscription | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | https://box.ascii.dev/compare |
| ascii | Idle cost | — | Unknown | — | — |
| exe.dev | Price / hour | — | Unknown | — | — |
| exe.dev | Meter | subscription | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | https://box.ascii.dev/compare |
| exe.dev | Idle cost | — | Unknown | — | — |
| Islo | Price / hour | — | Unknown | — | — |
| Islo | Meter | — | Unknown | — | — |
| Islo | Idle cost | — | Unknown | — | — |
| Self-hosted Firecracker | Price / hour | $0.03 /hr | Inferred | — | — |
| Self-hosted Firecracker | Meter | per-hour | Inferred | — | — |
| Self-hosted Firecracker | Idle cost | full-rate | Inferred | — | — |

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