Vercel Sandbox
Vercel Sandbox runs agent-generated code in Firecracker microVMs and bills CPU only while code is actively running. Suited to teams on Vercel and agents that spend most of their time waiting on LLM calls.
- 2 vCPU + 4 GiB
- $0.341/hr 2.06x E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Pause / resume
- Yes
- Max session
- 45 min (Hobby), 24 h (Pro/Enterprise) per session; persistent sandboxes resume indefinitely
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Priced next to Vercel Sandbox
All providers against E2B| Provider | 2 vCPU + 4 GiB$/hr | vs E2B | Relative cost | Isolation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modal Sandboxes | $0.238 (source: Modal Pricing) | 1.44x | gVisor | |
| Runloop | $0.317 (source: Runloop Pricing) | 1.91x | VM | |
| Vercel Sandbox | $0.341 (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas) | 2.06x | Firecracker microVM |
Every field
Source on each value- Isolation Isolation technology the vendor states for each sandbox.
- Firecracker microVM (source: Vercel Sandbox docs)
- Other isolation options Alternative runtimes the vendor offers besides the default (e.g. VM runtime, gVisor for GPU).
- Not published
- Deployment Managed cloud service, self-hosted software, or both.
- managed (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Billing basis What the meter counts: wall-clock allocated resources, active CPU only, requests/plan quota, session-hours, or free software.
- active CPU (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- vCPU price $/vCPU-hr Published on-demand CPU rate normalised to USD per vCPU-hour (per-second rates multiplied by 3,600; per-core rates divided by vCPUs per core where the vendor defines it). Lowest public tier, default region.
- $0.128 (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Memory price $/GiB-hr Published memory rate normalised to USD per GiB-hour (GB treated as GiB where the vendor does not distinguish). 0 means the vendor states memory is free.
- $0.0212 (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Sandbox from $/sandbox-hr Smallest published per-sandbox hourly price, where the vendor publishes one.
- Not published
- Paid plan from $/mo Cheapest paid platform plan fee (before usage).
- Not published
- Free tier A free plan, free monthly allowance or sign-up credit exists.
- Yes (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Free tier detail What the free tier or credit includes, as published.
- Hobby: 5 active CPU-hours, 420 GB-hours memory, 5,000 creations per month. (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Cold start ms Vendor-published create/boot time in milliseconds. Only filled when the vendor publishes a number; see startup_claim for context (percentile, conditions).
- Not published
- Resume time ms Vendor-published resume-from-pause/standby/snapshot time in milliseconds.
- Not published
- Startup claim The vendor's startup/resume wording with conditions, quoted or closely paraphrased.
- "Sandboxes start in milliseconds" (no figure published) (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Max session length Longest single sandbox session by plan, as published.
- 45 min (Hobby), 24 h (Pro/Enterprise) per session; persistent sandboxes resume indefinitely (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Persistence / snapshots Filesystem state can be kept between runs (snapshots, persistent disks, volumes).
- Yes (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Pause / resume A sandbox can be paused, suspended, hibernated or put in standby and resumed later.
- Yes (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Memory state kept Pause/hibernate preserves running memory state, not only the filesystem.
- Not published
- Fork / branch A running or snapshotted sandbox can be cloned into new sandboxes.
- Not published
- GPU GPU sandboxes are offered.
- Not published
- Self-host Can run on your own hardware or cluster (open source or licensed).
- Not published
- BYOC / VPC Vendor-managed deployment inside your own cloud account.
- Not published
- Open source Core sandbox runtime is published under an open-source licence.
- Not published
- Licence Open-source licence of the runtime, if any.
- Not published
- SDKs / languages Official SDK languages (or supported execution languages where noted).
- JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, CLI (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Regions Published regions or region count.
- 19 regions (default iad1) (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Max vCPU per sandbox vCPU Largest published vCPU count per sandbox on any self-serve or enterprise plan.
- 32 (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Max memory per sandbox GiB Largest published memory per sandbox.
- 64 (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- Concurrency Published concurrent sandbox limits by plan.
- 10 (Hobby), 10,000 (Pro/Enterprise) (source: Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas)
- SOC 2 SOC 2 status as stated by the vendor.
- Type II (source: Vercel Security)
- HIPAA Vendor offers HIPAA-compliant usage/BAA (on any plan).
- Yes (source: Vercel Security)
- Pricing from
- $0.128 per active vCPU-hour
- Pricing as published
- iad1 rates: $0.128 per active CPU-hour, $0.0212 per provisioned GB-hour, $0.60 per 1M creations, snapshots $0.08/GB-month. Pro usage draws on the $20/month plan credit first. Pricing checked 2026-11-09.
Sources
- Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas accessed 2026-11-09
- Vercel Sandbox docs accessed 2026-11-09
- Vercel Security accessed 2026-11-09
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