Sandboxer vs Civo

Civo is a developer cloud with hourly-billed compute instances, managed Kubernetes and NVIDIA GPUs. It is general infrastructure rather than an agent sandbox. Choose Civo for Kubernetes or GPU workloads and free egress; choose Sandboxer for disposable agent VMs that resume with processes intact.

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

At a glance

Sandboxer and Civo compared
Capability	Sandboxer	Civo
Isolation	microVM Cloud Hypervisor, its own kernel
Full Linux with root	Ubuntu 24.04, sudo, systemd	Docs describe an initial SSH user but do not state root or sudo.
Docker inside	Preinstalled
Nested virtualization (/dev/kvm)
Pause and resume with memory	Running processes come back	Snapshots are disk copies restored to a new VM.
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	hourly, rounded up to the next full hour
GPUs		L40S, A100, H100, H200, B200 and B300 listed; GPU sizes only in some regions.
Self-host or open source		partial CivoStack Enterprise private regions are mentioned in the API docs.
Regions	US East (Virginia) and EU Central (Finland)	Multiple, incl. UK, India, Morocco and Indonesia in-country regions Full list not on pricing page.

= not documented publicly.

Price for one 4 vCPU, 8 GB machine

Sandboxer

$0.036/hour

Flat per-second rate for the default size

Civo

$0.060/hour

Standard Large (4 vCPU, 8 GB): $0.059524/h ($43.45/month), US-dollar list price.

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

Where Civo is strong

Free and unlimited ingress and egress.
Wide GPU range, from L40S to B300, plus managed Kubernetes with a free control plane.
Hourly billing with a published monthly price for each size.

Where Sandboxer differs

Billing rounds up to the full hour, not per second.
Snapshots are disk-only and restore to a new VM; no memory pause.
No sandbox API or built-in coding agents.

Pick Civo if

You need GPUs or managed Kubernetes in a developer-focused cloud.
Data egress cost matters for your workload.

Pick Sandboxer if

You need disposable full VMs you can stop and resume with memory and processes restored, billed per second.
You want every port reachable as an HTTPS URL and a prompt API for preinstalled coding agents.

Sources

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 If something here is out of date, email hello@sandboxer.com and we'll fix it.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

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