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Sandboxer vs OVHcloud GPU instances

OVHcloud Public Cloud offers GPU instances (Nvidia H100, L40S, L4, V100S and others) virtualised with KVM, billed hourly or monthly. Sandboxer has no GPUs but bills per second. Pick OVHcloud for GPU servers; pick Sandboxer for agent sandboxes.

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

At a glance

Sandboxer and OVHcloud GPU instances compared
CapabilitySandboxerOVHcloud GPU instances
IsolationmicroVM
Cloud Hypervisor, its own kernel
KVM virtual machine
The page says instances are virtualised by the KVM hypervisor.
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 sessionNo limit on paid plans
Auto-stop is up to 30 days or off
BillingPer second, flat rate per size
Stopped sandboxes are free
Hourly or monthly (chosen at launch)
A monthly instance cannot be switched to hourly.
GPUs
H100, H200, L40S, A10, L4, V100S, Quadro RTX 5000.
Self-host or open source
Hosted public cloud.
RegionsUS East (Virginia) and EU Central (Finland)

= not documented publicly.

Where OVHcloud GPU instances is strong

  • GPU instances from $0.60 per hour (Quadro RTX 5000); H100 from $2.99 per hour.
  • KVM-virtualised instances.
  • GPUs usable with OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes.
  • Hourly or monthly billing choice.

Where Sandboxer differs

  • OVHcloud has GPUs; Sandboxer has none.
  • OVHcloud bills hourly or monthly; Sandboxer per second.
  • Sandboxer saves memory on stop; OVHcloud does not document that.
  • Sandboxer runs in us-east and eu-central; OVHcloud's GPU page does not list regions.

Pick OVHcloud GPU instances if

  • You need GPU servers from a large cloud provider.
  • You want monthly-billed GPU instances.
  • You want to pair GPUs with managed Kubernetes.

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. OVHcloud GPU instances is a trademark of its owner. Sandboxer is an independent product and is not affiliated with OVHcloud GPU instances.

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