Sandboxer vs Sakura Cloud

Sakura Cloud is a Japanese IaaS offering virtual servers up to 192 cores and 1,024 GB, dedicated-core, confidential-VM, GPU and dedicated-host plans. It has no sandbox or agent layer. Choose it for Japan-hosted infrastructure; choose Sandboxer for disposable agent VMs.

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

At a glance

Sandboxer and Sakura Cloud compared
Capability	Sandboxer	Sakura Cloud
Isolation	microVM Cloud Hypervisor, its own kernel	Virtual server; dedicated-core, confidential VM and dedicated host plans
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 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 and daily, capped at the 20-day amount per month From 7 yen per hour (Ishikari region); no per-traffic charge.
GPUs		GPU servers listed (Koukaryoku VRT).
Self-host or open source
Regions	US East (Virginia) and EU Central (Finland)	Includes Ishikari Full zone list not read.

= not documented publicly.

Where Sakura Cloud is strong

Servers up to 192 cores and 1,024 GB.
Dedicated-core, confidential-VM, GPU and dedicated-host plans.
No data-transfer charges.

Where Sandboxer differs

General IaaS: no sandbox API, pause with memory or fork documented.
Billing is hourly/daily with a 20-day monthly cap, not per second.
Pages are mainly in Japanese.

Pick Sakura Cloud if

You need Japan-hosted infrastructure with predictable monthly caps.
You need confidential-VM or dedicated-host plans.

Pick Sandboxer if

You need disposable full VMs you can stop and resume with memory and processes restored, billed per second.
You want every port reachable as an HTTPS URL and a prompt API for preinstalled coding agents.

Sources

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 If something here is out of date, email hello@sandboxer.com and we'll fix it.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

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