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"text": "?"
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"text": "500"
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"key": "payg",
"label": "Pay as you go"
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"text": "?"
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"src": 4,
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"text": "100"
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"key": "payg",
"label": "Pay as you go"
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"text": "?"
}
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"lower_bound": false,
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{
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"logo": "/logos/boxd.svg",
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"slug": "boxd",
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"status_label": "Active",
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"label": "Prepaid credit"
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"over": "",
"text": "?"
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"light_lower": true,
"lower_bound": true,
"notes": [
"rounding",
"minimum"
],
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"bird": "",
"bowerbird": false,
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{
"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
"label": "Agent sandboxes",
"slug": "agent-sandboxes"
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{
"href": "/devboxes/",
"label": "Devboxes",
"slug": "devboxes"
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"logo": "/logos/fly-sprites.png",
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"name": "Fly.io Sprites",
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"slug": "fly-sprites",
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"status_label": "Active",
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"label": "Pay as you go"
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"light_lower": false,
"lower_bound": true,
"notes": [
"minimum"
],
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"bird": "",
"bowerbird": false,
"categories": [
{
"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
"label": "Agent sandboxes",
"slug": "agent-sandboxes"
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],
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"logo": "/logos/blaxel.svg",
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"name": "Blaxel",
"operator": "Blaxel, Inc. (part of Baseten)",
"plate": 5,
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"status": "active",
"status_label": "Active",
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"summary": "Firecracker microVM sandboxes that drop to standby when idle and resume with memory intact, billed per GB of allocated memory per second while active, paid from prepaid credit."
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"rank": 7,
"shape": "2 vCPU / 4 GB",
"src": 7,
"terms": {
"at_once": {
"text": "10"
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"pay": {
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"key": "prepaid",
"label": "Prepaid credit"
},
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"over": "",
"text": "?"
}
},
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"light_lower": false,
"lower_bound": true,
"notes": [
"minimum"
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"bird": "",
"bowerbird": false,
"categories": [
{
"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
"label": "Agent sandboxes",
"slug": "agent-sandboxes"
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],
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"logo": "/logos/daytona.png",
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"name": "Daytona",
"operator": "Daytona Platforms Inc.",
"plate": 15,
"slug": "daytona",
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"status_label": "Active",
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"rank": 8,
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"src": 8,
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"text": "?"
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"key": "payg",
"label": "Pay as you go"
},
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"text": "300/min"
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},
"vt": true
},
{
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{
"detail": "A sandbox is stopped after 1 h.",
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"fleet_plan": "Pro",
"fleet_usd": 1607.28,
"light": "≥ $0.166",
"light_lower": false,
"lower_bound": true,
"notes": [
"minimum"
],
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"bird": "",
"bowerbird": false,
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{
"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
"label": "Agent sandboxes",
"slug": "agent-sandboxes"
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],
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"logo": "/logos/e2b.png",
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"name": "E2B",
"operator": "E2B",
"plate": 18,
"slug": "e2b",
"status": "active",
"status_label": "Active",
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"summary": "Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents, billed per second for the CPU and memory you provision."
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"rank": 9,
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"src": 9,
"terms": {
"at_once": {
"text": "20"
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"pay": {
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"key": "payg",
"label": "Pay as you go"
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"vt": true
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"light_lower": false,
"lower_bound": false,
"notes": [],
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"bird": "",
"bowerbird": false,
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{
"href": "/ci-runners/",
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{
"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
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"slug": "agent-sandboxes"
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"href": "/providers/tenki/",
"logo": "/logos/tenki.png",
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"name": "Tenki",
"operator": "Tenki Cloud, LLC (subsidiary of Luxor Technology Corporation)",
"plate": 41,
"slug": "tenki",
"status": "active",
"status_label": "Active",
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"src": 10,
"terms": {
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"text": "5"
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"key": "prepaid",
"label": "Prepaid credit"
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"over": "",
"text": "?"
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"light": "≥ $0.238",
"light_lower": false,
"lower_bound": true,
"notes": [
"minimum"
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"bird": "",
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{
"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
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"name": "Modal",
"operator": "Modal Labs, Inc.",
"plate": 32,
"slug": "modal",
"status": "active",
"status_label": "Active",
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"src": 11,
"terms": {
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"text": "100"
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"key": "payg",
"label": "Pay as you go"
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"over": "",
"text": "?"
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"light": "$0.317",
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"lower_bound": false,
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"bird": "",
"bowerbird": false,
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{
"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
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{
"href": "/devboxes/",
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"href": "/providers/runloop/",
"logo": "/logos/runloop.png",
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"name": "Runloop",
"operator": "Runloop AI, Inc.",
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"label": "Pay as you go"
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"text": "?"
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