# DeltaBox Lite vs Sandbox0 (slim)

> Sandbox0 scores 55.1 (C) to DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D) for sandbox fs. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Sandbox0 scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. DeltaBox Lite leads on payments & pricing. Both do sandbox fs.

- DeltaBox Lite: D 52.3, rank #851 of 1199 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deltabox-lite.min.md
- Sandbox0: C 55.1, rank #764 of 1199 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sandbox0.min.md
- DeltaBox Lite, good for A developer who wants a local coding agent's file edits held as a reviewable transaction on Linux or macOS, with commit or abort per task or per tool call. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 40. Also No key needed to call it; Open source; No incidents deducted, where Sandbox0 loses 3 points for them.
- Sandbox0, good 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 Schema & documentation, 77 against 68; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 67; Security & auth, 58 against 47; Maintenance & community, 76 against 43; Transparency & trust, 48 against 40. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | DeltaBox Lite | Sandbox0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 37 | 38 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 43 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 40 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DeltaBox Lite | Sandbox0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |
| Vendor | DeltaBox (delta-box) | Lougao, LLC (Sandbox0) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.sandbox0.ai` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary 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 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-21 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Popularity | none | 88 stars, 268 npm/wk, 82 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |