Sandboxer vs Scrapfly Cloud Browser

Scrapfly Cloud Browser provides remote browsers billed per active minute plus bandwidth, with sessions geo-located in 190+ countries. It is a browser service, not a VM. Pick it for anti-bot scraping; pick Sandboxer for general agent workloads.

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

At a glance

Sandboxer and Scrapfly Cloud Browser compared
Capability	Sandboxer	Scrapfly Cloud Browser
Isolation	microVM Cloud Hypervisor, its own kernel	browser instance Per-session cookies, localStorage and proxy assignment; isolation model not described.
Full Linux with root	Ubuntu 24.04, sudo, systemd	Managed browser; no root shell on a general Linux machine.
Docker inside	Preinstalled	Not offered.
Nested virtualization (/dev/kvm)		Not offered.
Pause and resume with memory	Running processes come back	Not stated on official pages.
Fork a sandbox	Copy-on-write disk copy that boots fresh	No fork feature documented.
HTTPS URL per port	Private with a token, or public	Exposes a browser endpoint, not arbitrary ports.
Longest session	No limit on paid plans Auto-stop is up to 30 days or off	configurable Session lifetime is configurable; no number stated.
Billing	Per second, flat rate per size Stopped sandboxes are free	per active minute plus bandwidth Uses the shared credit balance; no per-request fees; failed connects free.
GPUs		No GPUs advertised.
Self-host or open source		Managed service; the product page contrasts it with running your own Docker images and browser fleet.
Regions	US East (Virginia) and EU Central (Finland)	geo-located sessions in 190+ countries Residential exit IP per country.

= not documented publicly.

Where Scrapfly Cloud Browser is strong

Geo-located residential exits in 190+ countries with locale and timezone aligned.
Cookies and localStorage persist per session ID; proxy stickiness available.
Crashed sessions and failed connects are free.

Where Sandboxer differs

It is a browser service with no root, Docker or arbitrary ports.
Billing is credit-based per browser minute and bandwidth rather than per machine size.
Scrapfly plans set account concurrency (5 to 100 on the listed plans); the pricing page does not say how this maps to browser sessions.

Pick Scrapfly Cloud Browser if

You scrape bot-protected sites and need residential geo-targeting.
You already use Scrapfly's scrape API and want one credit balance.

Pick Sandboxer if

You need a full Ubuntu VM with root, systemd and Docker rather than a browser instance.
You want stop/resume that keeps running processes, or CoW forks of a disk snapshot.
You want coding agents preinstalled and any port exposed as an HTTPS URL.

Sources

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

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