Sandboxer vs Jarvislabs

Jarvislabs offers GPU instances (template containers), full GPU VMs with root and Docker, and serverless LLM endpoints. Sandboxer has no GPUs but resumes running processes and ships coding agents. Pick Jarvislabs for GPU notebooks and training; pick Sandboxer for agent sandboxes.

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

At a glance

Sandboxer and Jarvislabs compared
Capability	Sandboxer	Jarvislabs
Isolation	microVM Cloud Hypervisor, its own kernel	Container (Instances) or full virtual machine (VMs)
Full Linux with root	Ubuntu 24.04, sudo, systemd	partial Full root on VMs; not stated for container instances.
Docker inside	Preinstalled	partial Supported on VMs; not supported on container instances.
Nested virtualization (/dev/kvm)
Pause and resume with memory	Running processes come back	partial Instances and VMs can be paused and resumed; data under /home is kept on instances. RAM and process preservation is not documented.
Fork a sandbox	Copy-on-write disk copy that boots fresh
HTTPS URL per port	Private with a token, or public	VMs support public IP, security groups and reserved IPs; per-port URLs not documented.
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; storage billed while paused Storage billed while paused per the docs; the pricing page does not say.
GPUs		H200, H100, A100, RTX Pro 6000, L4 and more.
Self-host or open source
Regions	US East (Virginia) and EU Central (Finland)	India regions (CPU VMs in Noida); others not listed

= not documented publicly.

Where Jarvislabs is strong

Per-minute GPU billing with no commitment, from $0.41 per hour (A30) to $4.59 (H200).
Full VMs with root, Docker and VPC features alongside simpler template instances.
Pause and resume stops compute billing.
CPU-only VMs from $0.05 per hour.

Where Sandboxer differs

Jarvislabs sells GPUs; Sandboxer has none.
Container instances do not support Docker; Sandboxer sandboxes are full VMs with Docker preinstalled.
Jarvislabs bills per minute; Sandboxer per second.
Jarvislabs lists CPU VMs in an India (Noida) region and bills in INR or USD; Sandboxer runs in us-east and eu-central.

Pick Jarvislabs if

You need a GPU for notebooks, fine-tuning or inference at low hourly prices.
You want to pause a GPU container instance and change GPU type on resume.
You are in India and want INR billing or an India region.

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. Jarvislabs is a trademark of its owner. Sandboxer is an independent product and is not affiliated with Jarvislabs.

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