Sandboxer vs Exoscale

Exoscale is a European cloud provider selling KVM virtual machines billed by the second, GPU instances and object storage. It is general IaaS, not an agent sandbox product. Pick Exoscale for European data-sovereignty needs and GPUs; pick Sandboxer for ready-made agent VMs.

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

At a glance

Sandboxer and Exoscale compared
Capability	Sandboxer	Exoscale
Isolation	microVM Cloud Hypervisor, its own kernel	full VM (KVM) Described as KVM-powered virtual machines.
Full Linux with root	Ubuntu 24.04, sudo, systemd
Docker inside	Preinstalled
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 second Compute instances billed by the second; storage billed separately.
GPUs		NVIDIA A30, V100, A5000, 3080ti, A40; 1-8 cards per instance.
Self-host or open source
Regions	US East (Virginia) and EU Central (Finland)	Multiple European zones Object Storage spans 8 European zones; compute zone count not stated.

= not documented publicly.

Where Exoscale is strong

Per-second billing.
KVM virtual machines in ISO-certified European data centers.
GPU instances with up to 8 cards.
On-demand snapshots.

Where Sandboxer differs

Exoscale provides raw IaaS; Sandboxer adds agents, forks and per-port URLs.
Pages read do not document memory-preserving pause or nested KVM.
Exoscale has several European zones; Sandboxer runs in us-east and eu-central.
Exoscale offers GPUs; Sandboxer does not.

Pick Exoscale if

You need EU-hosted infrastructure.
You need GPU instances.
You want a general IaaS with object storage.

Pick Sandboxer if

You want a ready-to-use Ubuntu 24.04 VM with Docker, nested KVM and coding agents preinstalled, with no cloud account or networking to set up.
You want stop/resume that brings running processes back, instant forks of a disk snapshot, and stopped sandboxes that cost nothing.
You want any port exposed as an HTTPS URL and a prompt API, MCP server and SDKs for agents out of the box.

Sources

Exoscale compute

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 If something here is out of date, email hello@sandboxer.com and we'll fix it.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

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