# Novita AI

Agent sandboxes with pause/resume, memory snapshots and VNC desktops, billed per second per allocated vCPU and GiB of memory.

- Operated by: Novita AI
- Status: Active [1]
- Website: https://novita.ai
- Categories: Agent sandboxes
- Checked: 31 Oct 2026

## Novita Agent Sandbox (Agent sandboxes)

- Price: $0.0353 /vCPU-h (+ $0.0115 per GB-hour)
- 1-hour session: ≥ $0.117 (2 vCPU / 4 GB · rank 9 of 26)
- Fleet month: ≥ $1,026 (50 × 8 h × 22 days)
- Billed on: Running time (per second)
- Isolation: unknown (sessions up to 1 h)

What to know:

- Max session 1 h: A sandbox is stopped after 1 h.
- Max 5 running: At most 5 sandboxes run at the same time.

### Billing

- Payment: Metered: usage billed afterwards [2]
- Plan minimum: None [2]
- Billing increment: Per second [2]
- Minimum charge: unknown (Not published) [2]
- Per-job fee: None [2]

### Runtime

- Billed on: Running time [2]
- Isolation: unknown (Each task runs in an isolated sandbox with system-level separation; the technology is not named) [2]
- Max session: 1 h [2]
- Concurrent sandboxes: 5 [2]
- Largest vCPU: 8 [2]
- Largest memory: 8 GB [2]

### Lifecycle

- Survives a stop: Disk and memory [4]
- Snapshots: Yes [4]
- Pause and resume: Yes [4]
- Fork: Memory and processes [4]
- Compute billed while stopped: No [4]
- Auto-stop: after 5 min [4]
- Start time (vendor claim): 200 ms [4]

### Capabilities

- GPU: unknown (Not mentioned on the sandbox pages) [5]
- Desktop: Desktop (VNC) [5]
- Coding agents installed: Claude Code, Codex [5]
- Agent prompt API: No [5]
- SSH: Yes [5]
- Docker inside: unknown (Not stated) [5]
- SDKs: Python, TypeScript, CLI [5]
- SOC 2: unknown (Not stated on the sandbox pages) [5]

### Storage and network

- Disk included: 20 GB [2]
- Extra disk: unknown (Published per hour only: persistent storage (paused sandboxes, templates, snapshots) is $0.00009/GB-hour beyond 60 GB free per account) [2]
- Snapshot storage: unknown (Published per hour only: $0.00009/GB-hour beyond 60 GB free per account) [2]
- Egress: unknown (Not published) [2]

### Platform

- Regions: us-phx-1, us-virginia-1 [3]
- Your cloud (BYOC): unknown (Not stated) [3]
- Self-host: unknown (Not stated) [3]

### Free allowance

- Minutes a month: None [2]
- Credit a month: None [2]
- One-time credit: $100 [2]

### Prices

| Resource | Price | Per hour |
|---|---|---|
| per vCPU | $0.0000098 /s [1] | $0.0353 |
| per GB of memory | $0.0000032 /s [1] | $0.0115 |

- No plans: the free tier (5 concurrent sandboxes, 1-hour sessions, 2 vCPU / 4 GiB per sandbox) becomes the paid tier (100 concurrent, up to 8 vCPU / 8 GiB) once the account balance is above $0.
- Paid-tier session length conflicts between the quota docs (3 hours) and the product page (24 hours); the record keeps the free-tier value.
- New users get $100 in promotional credits after an account setup survey, no card required; credits may have a validity period.
- Memory is configured in 512 MiB steps at 0.5 to 4 GiB per vCPU; vCPU must be a whole number.
- Running sandboxes include 20 GB of ephemeral storage at no charge. Paused sandboxes keep filesystem and memory and are not billed for compute.
- Claude Code and Codex come preinstalled in the `claude-code` and `codex` templates.
- "Under 200ms on average" start time is a vendor claim from the product page.

## Sources

[1] https://novita.ai/sandbox (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[2] https://docs.novita.ai/guides/sandbox-pricing (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[3] https://docs.novita.ai/guides/sandbox-overview (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[4] https://docs.novita.ai/guides/sandbox-persistence (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[5] https://docs.novita.ai/guides/sandbox-sdk-and-cli (checked 31 Oct 2026)