Sandboxer vs Linode (Akamai Cloud)

Linode, now Akamai Cloud, rents virtual machines with full root access, billed hourly, including powered-off machines. It is general infrastructure with no sandbox or agent layer. Choose it for long-running servers and a broad cloud; choose Sandboxer for disposable, resumable agent sandboxes.

Checked against Linode (Akamai Cloud)'s public docs on October 24, 2026. Sources are linked in the table and listed below.

At a glance

Sandboxer and Linode (Akamai Cloud) compared
Capability	Sandboxer	Linode (Akamai Cloud)
Isolation	microVM Cloud Hypervisor, its own kernel
Full Linux with root	Ubuntu 24.04, sudo, systemd	'Full root access' per the compute FAQ.
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	hourly, rounded up to the nearest hour Powered-off VMs still incur charges.
GPUs		GPU plans (NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, RTX 4000 Ada, RTX 6000 Quadro), billed hourly.
Self-host or open source
Regions	US East (Virginia) and EU Central (Finland)	Multiple regions; pricing varies by region Count not stated on pages read.

= not documented publicly.

Price for one 4 vCPU, 8 GB machine

Sandboxer

$0.036/hour

Flat per-second rate for the default size

Linode (Akamai Cloud)

$0.072/hour

Shared 'Linode 8 GB' (4 vCPU, 8 GB): $0.072/h ($48/month), price shown for the Jakarta region; prices vary by region. Dedicated G8 8x4 is $0.14/h.

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

Where Linode (Akamai Cloud) is strong

Shared, dedicated and GPU plans.
Full root access.
Backed by Akamai's wider cloud and network.

Where Sandboxer differs

Billing is hourly with a round-up, and powered-off VMs keep billing.
No documented pause with memory or fork.
No sandbox API or bundled coding agents.

Pick Linode (Akamai Cloud) if

You want a conventional VPS with dedicated-CPU or GPU options.
You already use Akamai's network or edge services.

Pick Sandboxer if

You want a full Ubuntu 24.04 VM with root, Docker and nested KVM that stops and resumes with running processes intact.
You want coding agents (Claude Code, Codex and others) preinstalled and driven through a prompt API, MCP, REST, CLI and SDKs.
You want per-second billing and stopped sandboxes that cost nothing.

Sources

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 If something here is out of date, email hello@sandboxer.com and we'll fix it.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

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