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Email support is $800 a month plus 3 per cent of usage, dedicated support $1,600 plus 10 per cent (https://blaxel.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$0.1656 / session-hr", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 27, "npmWeekly": 353025, "pypiWeekly": 74970, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.blaxel.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.blaxel.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.code", "sandbox.fs", "sandbox.persist" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "go" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 234, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 40, "reliability": 35, "schema": 80, "security": 64, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "No compute charge in standby, only $0.20 a GB-month of snapshot storage. 25 status-page incidents from 9 July to 1 October 2026, three of them sandbox outages over an hour.", "strengths": [ "No compute charge in standby, only $0.20 a GB-month of snapshot storage", "MicroVM per sandbox with domain allow and deny lists that can be enforced at network level", "An MCP server in every sandbox over streamable HTTP, 18 tools", "Public OpenAPI for the sandbox API, llms.txt and an error-code reference with retryable flags", "Up to $200 of free credits, and account creation through Stripe Projects" ], "weaknesses": [ "25 status-page incidents from 9 July to 1 October 2026, three of them sandbox outages over an hour", "No published request-rate limits, 429 guidance or SLA", "Domain filtering and secret injection are marked public preview, and egress is open by default", "No security.txt, and the privacy policy lives on a portal that blocks automated readers", "Billed by memory, and about half of it goes to the writable tmpfs layer" ], "agentNotes": [ "Close WebSocket and terminal connections when done. 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Its incident feed lists 25 incidents from 9 July to 1 October 2026, including a critical workload outage in us-was-1 on 1 October, and shows 99.48 per cent uptime for Sandboxes over July to October.", "blaxel.ai/privacy links to a privacy policy on compliance.blaxel.ai, which disallows automated fetching.", "The .ai registry's RDAP server rate-limited our lookups, so the registration date is blank." ], "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/blaxel-sandboxes.json", "live": { "slug": "blaxel-sandboxes", "probe": { "target": "https://api.blaxel.ai/v0", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:48:05.544805239Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 71, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 69, "p95ms24h": 131, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 898, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 270, "ok": 270 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.blaxel.ai", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:06.518055261Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "blaxel-ai/sdk-python", "version": "v0.4.1", "released": "2026-07-28", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:24.830998146Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@blaxel/core", "version": "0.3.25", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:22.619449725Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "blaxel", "version": "0.4.13", "released": "2026-09-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:24.645966759Z" } ], "githubStars": 25, "npmWeekly": 388609, "pypiWeekly": 67999, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://blaxel.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:49.82305612Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.blaxel.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:21.007493957Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "blaxel.ai", "registered": "2025-02-17", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/blaxel.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:20.159771679Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.blaxel.ai/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:19.937510026Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a17f1aa593ad" }, { "url": "https://blaxel.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:31.75141291Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "5758cb83f86d" }, { "url": "https://blaxel.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:33.831599103Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0c43f1fab685" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:06.518055261Z" } }, "b": { "slug": "cloudflare-sandbox-sdk", "name": "Cloudflare Sandbox SDK", "vendor": "Cloudflare", "vendorUrl": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/sandbox/", "kind": "sdk", "category": "code-sandboxes", "summary": "TypeScript library for running sandboxed Linux containers from a Cloudflare Worker.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk.json", "repo": "https://github.com/cloudflare/sandbox-sdk", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@cloudflare/sandbox" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "There's no hosted API. The sandbox sits behind a Worker you deploy, so it has whatever auth you put in front of it, and the starter template has none. Deploying needs a Cloudflare account through Wrangler. Version 1.0 adds preview ports with custom hostnames and authentication.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Needs the Workers Paid plan, $5 a month minimum (https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/). Billed as Containers plus Workers and Durable Objects. Containers include 25 GiB-hours of memory, 375 vCPU-minutes and 200 GB-hours of disk a month, then $0.0000025 a GiB-second of memory, $0.000020 a vCPU-second of CPU used and $0.00000007 a GB-second of disk, in 10 ms steps while the container runs. Egress is $0.025 a GB in North America and Europe after 1 TB (https://developers.cloudflare.com/containers/pricing/). Durable Objects add $0.15 per million requests and $12.50 per million GB-seconds after the included amounts (https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$0.072 / vCPU-hr", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1100, "npmWeekly": 722733, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/sandbox/", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/sandbox/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.code", "sandbox.fs", "sandbox.persist" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "typescript", "open-source", "llms-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.8, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 137, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 30, "reliability": 87, "schema": 77, "security": 65, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Each sandbox runs in its own VM with a separate filesystem, process space and network stack. No hosted API. You deploy and secure a Worker before an agent can call anything, and the starter has no auth.", "strengths": [ "Each sandbox runs in its own VM with a separate filesystem, process space and network stack", "Outbound handlers hold credentials in the Worker and inject them, so the container never sees them", "Egress can be turned off or limited to a deny-by-default `allowedHosts` list", "CPU billed on use at $0.000020 a vCPU-second, with a monthly allowance on Workers Paid", "Apache-2.0, with CodeQL and passing CI on main" ], "weaknesses": [ "No hosted API. You deploy and secure a Worker before an agent can call anything, and the starter has no auth", "Open bugs on backups that drop directories (#859) and restores of archives of 10 MB or more (#884)", "Needs Workers Paid at $5 a month, with no card-free route", "TypeScript only", "Two models to learn while 0.x and 1.0 overlap until 31 December 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Derive the sandbox ID from the authenticated user, as the docs advise. IDs aren't secrets", "Put API keys in an outbound handler in the Worker, not in the container's environment", "Set `enableInternet = false` or an `allowedHosts` list before running untrusted code. Internet access is on by default", "Check that a restored backup has every directory you expect. Backups of 10 MB or more have open bugs", "Start new projects on 1.0. The 0.x library only gets fixes until 31 December 2026" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 30, "reliability": 87, "schema": 77, "security": 65, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 100 }, "connect": { "install": "npm create cloudflare@latest -- my-sandbox --template=cloudflare/sandbox-sdk/examples/minimal" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sandbox.code", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk" }, "sameCompany": [ "cloudflare-mcp", "cloudflare-r2", "cloudflare-clef" ], "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Container CPU", "unit": "vcpu-hour", "usd": 0.072, "note": "$0.000020 a vCPU-second of CPU used, after 375 vCPU-minutes a month" }, { "item": "Workers Paid plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 5, "note": "Minimum charge" }, { "item": "Egress, North America and Europe", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.025, "note": "After 1 TB a month" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "domain": "cloudflare.com", "domainRegistered": "2009-02-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/", "statusPage": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "changelog": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/?product=sandbox", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The self-serve subscription agreement (updated 12 September 2025) names Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco.", "There's no vendor endpoint to check. Sandboxes are reached through a Worker on your own route or workers.dev subdomain.", "security.txt lists HackerOne and a disclosure policy, but we didn't see an Expires field.", "The GitHub README still says the SDK is in active development and APIs may change before v1.0, while npm has 1.0.0 (published 2026-09-30) and the changelog announces 1.0. The GitHub releases page showed 0.12.4 (21 July 2026) as its newest release when checked." ], "score": 100 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk.json", "live": { "slug": "cloudflare-sandbox-sdk", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "indicator": "minor", "summary": "Minor Service Outage", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:08.31714726Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "cloudflare/sandbox-sdk", "version": "@cloudflare/sandbox@0.12.10", "released": "2026-09-23", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:24:02.293431378Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@cloudflare/sandbox", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:24:01.356030499Z" } ], "githubStars": 1144, "npmWeekly": 797840, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cloudflare.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:51.95928161Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/sandbox/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:31.097149892Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cloudflare.com", "registered": "2009-02-17", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/cloudflare.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:22.743038628Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/?product=sandbox", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:50.869019575Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:50.869019575Z", "fingerprint": "aa7b5fb58872" }, { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/containers/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:52.872169011Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:31:01.576635047Z", "fingerprint": "a81e9d7bb64a" }, { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:00.847585458Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:00.847585458Z", "fingerprint": "ea6eab1a375f" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:08.31714726Z" } }, "summary": "Cloudflare Sandbox SDK has a score of 67.8 (B) against Blaxel Sandboxes's 61 (C). Both do sandbox code. The largest gap is reliability, 52 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-cloudflare-sandbox-sdk", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-cloudflare-sandbox-sdk.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-cloudflare-sandbox-sdk.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-cloudflare-sandbox-sdk.min.md" }, "markdown": "Cloudflare Sandbox SDK has a score of 67.8 (B) against Blaxel Sandboxes's 61 (C). Both do sandbox code. The largest gap is reliability, 52 points.\n\n- Blaxel Sandboxes: grade C, 61/100, rank #234 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/blaxel-sandboxes.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/blaxel-sandboxes.json\n- Cloudflare Sandbox SDK: grade B, 67.8/100, rank #137 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Blaxel Sandboxes for agent ergonomics (+7), payments \u0026 pricing (+10), maintenance \u0026 community (+15).\n\nPick Cloudflare Sandbox SDK for reliability (+52), transparency \u0026 trust (+5).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Blaxel Sandboxes | Cloudflare Sandbox SDK | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 87 | Cloudflare Sandbox SDK +52 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 77 | Blaxel Sandboxes +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 63 | Blaxel Sandboxes +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 65 | Cloudflare Sandbox SDK +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Blaxel Sandboxes +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 70 | Blaxel Sandboxes +15 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 73 | Cloudflare Sandbox SDK +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61 · C** | **67.8 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Blaxel Sandboxes | Cloudflare Sandbox SDK |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |\n| Vendor | Blaxel | Cloudflare |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.blaxel.ai/v0` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | 27 stars, 353k npm/wk, 75k PyPI/wk | 1.1k stars, 723k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Blaxel Sandboxes.** No compute charge in standby, only $0.20 a GB-month of snapshot storage. 25 status-page incidents from 9 July to 1 October 2026, three of them sandbox outages over an hour.\n\n**Cloudflare Sandbox SDK.** Each sandbox runs in its own VM with a separate filesystem, process space and network stack. No hosted API. You deploy and secure a Worker before an agent can call anything, and the starter has no auth.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Blaxel Sandboxes\n\n1. Close WebSocket and terminal connections when done. An open connection keeps the sandbox active and billed\n2. Set a TTL or idle expiry on throwaway sandboxes. The default is to keep them\n3. Set `forbiddenDomains` or an allow list at creation, with `network.firewall` for tools that ignore proxy settings. Both can only be set when the sandbox is created\n4. Retry only on WORKLOAD_UNAVAILABLE. The error reference says other codes won't succeed on retry\n5. Connect to `\u003csandbox URL\u003e/mcp` with your API key instead of wrapping the REST API in tools yourself\n\n### Cloudflare Sandbox SDK\n\n1. Derive the sandbox ID from the authenticated user, as the docs advise. IDs aren't secrets\n2. Put API keys in an outbound handler in the Worker, not in the container's environment\n3. Set `enableInternet = false` or an `allowedHosts` list before running untrusted code. Internet access is on by default\n4. Check that a restored backup has every directory you expect. Backups of 10 MB or more have open bugs\n5. Start new projects on 1.0. The 0.x library only gets fixes until 31 December 2026\n\n## Other comparisons with Blaxel Sandboxes or Cloudflare Sandbox SDK\n\n- [Blaxel Sandboxes vs Daytona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-daytona.md)\n- [Blaxel Sandboxes vs E2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-e2b.md)\n- [Blaxel Sandboxes vs Modal Sandboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-modal-sandboxes.md)\n- [Blaxel Sandboxes vs Runloop Devboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-runloop.md)\n- [Blaxel Sandboxes vs Vercel Sandbox](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-vercel-sandbox.md)\n- [Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs Daytona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-daytona.md)\n- [Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs E2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-e2b.md)\n- [Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs Modal Sandboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-modal-sandboxes.md)\n- [Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs Runloop Devboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-runloop.md)\n- [Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs Vercel Sandbox](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-vercel-sandbox.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-04", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Blaxel Sandboxes vs Cloudflare Sandbox SDK", "url": "" } ], "description": "Cloudflare Sandbox SDK has a score of 67.8 (B) against Blaxel Sandboxes's 61 (C). 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