Sandboxer vs Verda (formerly DataCrunch)
Verda sells dedicated CPU and GPU instances, reached by SSH as root, aimed at training and hosted AI workloads. Sandboxer instead gives short-lived Ubuntu microVM sandboxes with agent tooling and no GPUs. Pick Verda when you need GPUs; pick Sandboxer for agent and dev sandboxes.
Checked against Verda (formerly DataCrunch)'s public docs on October 24, 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 Verda (formerly DataCrunch) is strong
- Wide GPU range from RTX A6000 and L40S to H200, B300 and GB300 at listed on-demand and spot prices.
- GPU spot pricing at roughly half the on-demand rate (for example H100 SXM5 $2.280/h spot vs $4.560/h on-demand).
- Root SSH access and a documented CLI and API.
- Data centres on renewable energy, with PUE figures published.
Where Sandboxer differs
- Verda bills in pre-paid 10-minute increments, while Sandboxer bills per second.
- Shut-down instances keep charging; Sandboxer stopped sandboxes cost nothing.
- Verda locations are all in Helsinki; Sandboxer runs in us-east (Ashburn) and eu-central (Helsinki).
- Verda sells GPUs; Sandboxer has none.
Pick Verda (formerly DataCrunch) if
- You need H100, H200 or Blackwell GPUs for training or inference.
- You want spot GPU pricing for fault-tolerant jobs.
- You want GPU compute in Finland on renewable power.
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
- Verda pricing
- Verda docs: connecting
- Verda docs: pricing and billing
- Verda docs: locations
- Verda docs: shutdown and delete
- Verda docs home
Products change. If something here is out of date, email hello@sandboxer.com and we'll fix it. Verda (formerly DataCrunch) is a trademark of its owner. Sandboxer is an independent product and is not affiliated with Verda (formerly DataCrunch).
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