Sandboxer vs Paperspace (DigitalOcean)
Paperspace (a DigitalOcean company) offers virtual machines with GPU options, notebooks and container deployments. Sandboxer has no GPUs and is not the pick for GPU work; it bills per second and ships coding agents in CPU VMs. Pick Paperspace for GPU machines and notebooks; pick Sandboxer for CPU agent sandboxes.
Checked against Paperspace (DigitalOcean)'s public docs on October 28, 2026. Sources are linked in the table and listed below.
At a glance
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Price for one 4 vCPU, 8 GB machine
List prices from each provider's pricing page, before free credits, plans and storage. This compares price only.
Where Paperspace (DigitalOcean) is strong
- CPU C-series sized exactly 4 vCPU / 8 GB at $0.08 per hour.
- A range of NVIDIA GPUs (H100, A100, A6000, V100 and others), up to 8 per machine.
- Notebooks and container deployments alongside machines.
- Hourly machines that are powered off are billed only for storage.
Where Sandboxer differs
- Paperspace has GPUs; Sandboxer has none.
- Paperspace bills by the hour; Sandboxer bills per second.
- Sandboxer saves memory so processes resume; Paperspace does not document that.
- Paperspace also sells Gradient subscription plans for notebooks and projects alongside pay-as-you-go machines.
Pick Paperspace (DigitalOcean) if
- You need GPUs for training, inference or notebooks; Sandboxer has none.
- You want notebook-based ML development.
- You want a flat monthly-rate machine (the C5 4 vCPU / 8 GB is listed at $48 per month).
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 If something here is out of date, email hello@sandboxer.com and we'll fix it. Paperspace (DigitalOcean) is a trademark of its owner. Sandboxer is an independent product and is not affiliated with Paperspace (DigitalOcean).
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