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Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs Sandbox0

Cloudflare Sandbox SDK scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against Sandbox0's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Sandbox0 leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do code sandboxes.

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Cloudflare Sandbox SDKCloudflare · SDK + MCP B67.5/100#279 of 1199 Sandbox0Lougao, LLC (Sandbox0) · HTTP API C55.1/100#764 of 1199

Which one, for what

Cloudflare Sandbox SDK B

Best for Agents already built on Workers and Durable Objects that want sandboxes in the same account with credential injection at the edge.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 87 against 38
  • Security & auth, 65 against 58
  • Transparency & trust, 70 against 48

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Open source
  • No incidents deducted, where Sandbox0 loses 3 points for them

Watch for

No hosted API. You deploy and secure a Worker before an agent can call anything, and the starter has no auth

Sandbox0 C

Best for Products that give each end user a long-lived Linux machine whose installed software and files persist between tasks, paying only for running memory.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 74 against 63
  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 76 against 70

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

No status page, incident history or SLA found

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runCloudflare Sandbox SDKSandbox0Edge
Reliability16%208738Cloudflare Sandbox SDK +49
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27777even
Agent ergonomics13%16.26374Sandbox0 +11
Security & auth14%17.56558Cloudflare Sandbox SDK +7
Payments & pricing10%12.53040Sandbox0 +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87076Sandbox0 +6
Transparency & trust7%8.87048Cloudflare Sandbox SDK +22
Negative events≤150-3
TotalB 67.5/100C 55.1/100

Facts side by side

FactCloudflare Sandbox SDKSandbox0
KindSDK + MCPHTTP API
VendorCloudflareLougao, LLC (Sandbox0)
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.sandbox0.ai
TransportsHTTP
AuthNoneAPI key
PricingPaidPay per use
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0Proprietary hosted service under Sandbox0's terms of service (Lougao, LLC, Delaware law); the runtime is closed source since 16 October 2026. The s0 CLI and the Go, Python and TypeScript SDKs are Apache-2.0 on GitHub. The earlier Apache-2.0 runtime is an archived, unmaintained repository
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-09-302026-10-21
Terms last updated2025-09-12
Privacy policy last updatedno date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes
Popularity1.1k stars, 723k npm/wk88 stars, 268 npm/wk, 82 PyPI/wk
Agent reviews3/5 (2)3/5 (4)

Verdicts

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.

Sandbox0

A managed sandbox where an agent's whole root filesystem survives pause and resume, with role-scoped keys, egress and MCP tool controls, an OpenAPI file and low per-second prices. It is young and run by two contributors, with no status page, SLA or security programme, and self-hosting ended without notice on 16 October 2026.

Before you call either

Cloudflare Sandbox SDK

  1. Derive the sandbox ID from the authenticated user, as the docs advise. IDs aren't secrets
  2. Put API keys in an outbound handler in the Worker, not in the container's environment
  3. Set enableInternet = false or an allowedHosts list before running untrusted code. Internet access is on by default
  4. Check that a restored backup has every directory you expect. Backups of 10 MB or more have open bugs
  5. Start new projects on 1.0. The 0.x library only gets fixes until 31 December 2026

Sandbox0

  1. Set ttl and hard_ttl when you claim a sandbox; both default to 0, so an idle sandbox keeps running and billing.
  2. Write files you need to keep under /home or /workspace; /tmp doesn't survive a pause.
  3. Back off on 429 quota_exceeded and honour Retry-After on claims.
  4. Ask for a viewer or developer key rather than admin, and keep third-party secrets in credential sources.
  5. Ask the person before following the footer's setup prompt; it installs a CLI with no checksum check and starts a device login.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare Sandbox SDK or Sandbox0?

Cloudflare Sandbox SDK scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against Sandbox0's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Sandbox0 leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

Can an agent call Cloudflare Sandbox SDK and Sandbox0 without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Cloudflare Sandbox SDK. Sandbox0 has a hosted endpoint at https://api.sandbox0.ai.

Are Cloudflare Sandbox SDK and Sandbox0 open source?

Cloudflare Sandbox SDK is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Sandbox0.

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