Sandboxer vs Baseten

Baseten is an inference and training platform: you deploy models on dedicated GPU or CPU instances billed per minute, or call hosted model APIs. Self-hosting is on Enterprise. Sandboxer has no GPUs, so it isn't the pick for GPU work. Pick Baseten to serve models in production; pick Sandboxer for CPU agent sandboxes.

Checked against Baseten's public docs on October 24, 2026. Sources are linked in the table and listed below.

At a glance

Sandboxer and Baseten compared
Capability	Sandboxer	Baseten
Isolation	microVM Cloud Hypervisor, its own kernel	Model container on dedicated infrastructure Docs mention workload isolation as a hosting option.
Full Linux with root	Ubuntu 24.04, sudo, systemd	Model deployments, not interactive machines.
Docker inside	Preinstalled	partial A custom Docker server can define a deployment.
Nested virtualization (/dev/kvm)
Pause and resume with memory	Running processes come back
Fork a sandbox	Copy-on-write disk copy that boots fresh
HTTPS URL per port	Private with a token, or public
Longest session	No limit on paid plans Auto-stop is up to 30 days or off
Billing	Per second, flat rate per size Stopped sandboxes are free	Per minute of compute; no charge for idle time
GPUs		T4, L4, A10G, A100, H100, B200.
Self-host or open source		partial Self-hosted and Your-VPC / Hybrid deployments on the Enterprise plan.
Regions	US East (Virginia) and EU Central (Finland)	Multi-cloud capacity with regional environments Specific regions not listed.

= not documented publicly.

Price for one 4 vCPU, 8 GB machine

Sandboxer

$0.036/hour

Flat per-second rate for the default size

Baseten

$0.21/hour

4x16 instance: 4 vCPU / 16 GB (not 8 GB) at $0.00346/min × 60

List prices from each provider's pricing page, before free credits, plans and storage. This compares price only.

Where Baseten is strong

Per-minute billing with no charge for idle time.
SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance on all plans.
Self-hosted and VPC options on Enterprise.
Regional environments for data residency.

Where Sandboxer differs

Baseten serves models; Sandboxer provides interactive VMs with root.
Baseten has GPUs; Sandboxer has none.
Baseten bills per minute; Sandboxer per second.
Baseten self-hosting is Enterprise-only; Sandboxer is not self-hostable.

Pick Baseten if

You deploy models to production with autoscaling.
You need HIPAA/SOC 2 or a VPC deployment.
You need GPU inference with dedicated capacity.

Pick Sandboxer if

You need a CPU sandbox with Docker, nested KVM and systemd that stops and resumes with running processes intact, and you do not need GPUs.
You want coding agents (Claude Code, Codex and others) preinstalled and driven through a prompt API with streamed events.
You want per-second billing with stopped sandboxes costing nothing and a flat $20 to $2000 monthly plan whose dollars return as machine time.

Sources

Products change. If something here is out of date, email hello@sandboxer.com and we'll fix it. Baseten is a trademark of its owner. Sandboxer is an independent product and is not affiliated with Baseten.

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