Sandboxer vs Nebius AI Cloud
Nebius AI Cloud offers GPU and CPU virtual machines (B300 to L40S) and GPU clusters across nine public regions. Sandboxer is a much smaller product: Ubuntu microVM sandboxes for agents, without GPUs. Pick Nebius for GPU training or inference at scale; pick Sandboxer for agent sandboxes.
Checked against Nebius AI Cloud's public docs on October 24, 2026. Sources are linked in the table and listed below.
At a glance
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Where Nebius AI Cloud is strong
- Wide GPU line-up from L40S to B300, with preemptible pricing from $0.79 per GPU-hour on several models.
- Nine public regions across the US, Europe and Israel.
- GPU clusters for multi-node training with 8-GPU presets.
- CPU-only AMD and Intel platforms up to 256 vCPUs.
Where Sandboxer differs
- Nebius provisions VMs and clusters through cloud-init and API; Sandboxer starts a prepared sandbox with agents installed.
- Nebius has GPUs; Sandboxer has none.
- Nebius lists nine public regions; Sandboxer runs in two (us-east and eu-central).
- Nebius billing granularity is not stated on the price page; Sandboxer bills per second.
Pick Nebius AI Cloud if
- You need H100, H200 or Blackwell GPUs or multi-node GPU clusters.
- You need several regions or EU/UK data residency.
- You want preemptible GPUs at low prices for batch jobs.
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 If something here is out of date, email hello@sandboxer.com and we'll fix it. Nebius AI Cloud is a trademark of its owner. Sandboxer is an independent product and is not affiliated with Nebius AI Cloud.
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