# Blaxel Sandboxes vs Freestyle (slim)

> Blaxel Sandboxes scores 60.7 (C) on agent readiness against Freestyle's 58.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Freestyle leads on reliability, schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do sandbox code. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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Blaxel Sandboxes scores 60.7 (C) on agent readiness against Freestyle's 58.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Freestyle leads on reliability, schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do sandbox code.

- Blaxel Sandboxes: C 60.7, rank #450 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/blaxel-sandboxes.min.md
- Freestyle: C 58.5, rank #520 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freestyle.min.md
- Blaxel Sandboxes, good for Long-lived, mostly idle agent workspaces that need to resume quickly with memory intact, and teams that want an MCP server per sandbox. Ahead on Security & auth, 64 against 53; Maintenance & community, 85 against 71; Transparency & trust, 65 against 41.
- Freestyle, good for Suited to long-running agent work that needs a full Linux VM, memory-preserving pause, snapshots to branch from and private networking. Ahead on Reliability, 43 against 35; Schema & documentation, 86 against 80; Payments & pricing, 45 against 40. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Blaxel Sandboxes | Freestyle |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 43 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 71 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 41 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Blaxel Sandboxes | Freestyle |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Blaxel | Freestyle Cloud Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.blaxel.ai/v0` | `https://api.freestyle.sh/v5` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service with no published terms of service found. The `freestyle` SDK and CLI package on npm is MIT |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-27 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Popularity | 27 stars, 353k npm/wk, 75k PyPI/wk | 72k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |