Fast and affordable Sandboxes in EU & US
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96 agents, one shared bucket, and a city built together
We gave 96 agents their own Lizard sandboxes, one shared bucket and a private network, and let them build a city together. Every agent reads and writes the same bucket and talks to the others directly, even between our EU and US regions
lizard.build/sandboxes
On most clouds that's where the bill hides: a fee on every read and write, and a fee on every message between machines. On Lizard both are $0
> Object Storage has no per-request fees
> traffic between sandboxes runs on a private network, it's free and doesn't count toward your egress
> each agent runs in its own isolated microVM, $0.0162 an hour for a Small sandbox
You pay for the sandboxes while they run and for what you store. Not for your agents talking to each other
You shipped an update. 1,000 users lost their files. Not on Lizard
Every app that gives users their own agent hits this sooner or later: you push a new version, rebuild the environments, and whatever your users made inside them is gone
On Lizard each user gets their own sandbox, and their files live on a persistent volume at /workspace, not inside the sandbox. Ship a new version, snapshot it once, and every user's sandbox comes back on it in 1 to 3 seconds with the same volume attached
lizard.build/sandboxes
> the sandbox is new, the user's files stay exactly where they were
> no migration scripts, no copying data between machines
> each user's sandbox is its own isolated microVM
> billed per second while it runs, and a paused sandbox costs nothing
Ship as often as you want. Your users won't notice anything except the new features
You shipped an update. 1,000 users lost their files. Not on Lizard
Every app that gives users their own agent hits this sooner or later: you push a new version, rebuild the environments, and whatever your users made inside them is gone
On Lizard each user gets their own sandbox, and their files live on a persistent volume at /workspace, not inside the sandbox. Ship a new version, snapshot it once, and every user's sandbox comes back on it in 1 to 3 seconds with the same volume attached
lizard.build/sandboxes
> the sandbox is new, the user's files stay exactly where they were
> no migration scripts, no copying data between machines
> each user's sandbox is its own isolated microVM
> billed per second while it runs, and a paused sandbox costs nothing
Ship as often as you want. Your users won't notice anything except the new features
Your agents can talk to each other, and the traffic is free
Lizard sandboxes reach each other over a private network, even across regions. Put a planner in the EU and its workers in the US, pass files, diffs and test results between them, and pay $0 for that traffic
lizard.build/sandboxes
> private network between sandboxes, not the public internet
> works between EU and US regions
> traffic between sandboxes is free and doesn't count toward your 2 TB of egress
> every agent runs in its own isolated microVM
One bug, 50 agents, first fix wins
Set up a sandbox once and snapshot it, or fork one that's already running with its memory and processes. Each copy is ready in 1 to 3 seconds. Give 50 agents the same bug and a different idea each, and keep the first fix that turns the tests green
lizard.build/sandboxes
> 50 Small sandboxes cost $0.81 an hour while they run
> pause the other 49 the moment one passes, and they cost nothing
> every fork runs in its own isolated microVM
One bug, 50 agents, first fix wins
Set up a sandbox once and snapshot it, or fork one that's already running with its memory and processes. Each copy is ready in 1 to 3 seconds. Give 50 agents the same bug and a different idea each, and keep the first fix that turns the tests green
lizard.build/sandboxes
> 50 Small sandboxes cost $0.81 an hour while they run
> pause the other 49 the moment one passes, and they cost nothing
> every fork runs in its own isolated microVM
Run 100 coding agents at once
Every Lizard sandbox boots in about 238 ms, and Pro runs up to 100 of them at the same time. Give each one Claude Code or Codex and its own task, and all 100 work in parallel
lizard.build/sandboxes
> each agent in its own isolated microVM
> 100 Small sandboxes cost $1.62 an hour together
> billed per second, so a 20-minute task costs 20 minutes
> pause them when they're done and they cost nothing until you resume
Your agent reads files all day. Here's what that costs
We priced one month of a typical agent workload: 1 TB stored, 100 GB served, 500M reads and 50M writes
Lizard: $18
Cloudflare R2: $420
AWS S3: $473
lizard.build/sandboxes
> no per-request fees on Lizard Object Storage, you pay for storage and egress only
> storage at $0.0135 per GB-month, S3-compatible
> sits next to your sandboxes, apps and databases on one bill
Competitor prices are from their public pricing pages as of October 2026
Host 10,000 apps and pay for the ones people use
Any Lizard apps and databases is serverless now! A small app using 60 MB of RAM costs about $0.60 a month running and about $0.01 paused. After a stretch with no requests (10 minutes by default, you can change it), the whole project, frontend, backend, Postgres and Redis, freezes in its current state.
> while it's paused you pay only for its storage
> the next request wakes it in 0.5 to 1 second, right where it left off
> made for app builders and agents that ship thousands of small apps, most of them idle most of the day
Billed by usage while it runs
Fastest to boot, and the cheapest to keep running
Yura raced 300 cold starts per provider and Lizard came first in every column, from the median to the slowest start. Speed is half of it. An agent that runs all day also has to be cheap to keep running
We took the same four providers and priced 10 Small sandboxes (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM) running 24/7 for a full month, using the calculator on our sandboxes page:
Lizard: $118
Modal: $440, 3.7x more
E2B: $907, 7.7x more
Daytona: $912, 7.7x more
> billed per second, so a sandbox that runs for 10 minutes costs 10 minutes
> pause it and it costs nothing until you resume
> every sandbox is its own isolated microVM, in US or EU regions
racing 300 sandboxes per provide: @LizardBuild vs E2B vs Daytona vs Modal
result: Lizard Sandboxes win every column
no sandbox we tested boots faster
Host what your agent builds
Most sandboxes end with the session, and the app your agent built ends with them. On Lizard, one command deploys that code as a live web app in a persistent container with its own HTTPS URL. It keeps running after the sandbox is gone.
> no copying files out and no second platform to sign up for
> add Postgres, Redis or S3 storage next to it, one command each
> live logs and metrics for every service
Build in Lizard Sandboxes. Host on Lizard. One bill, best prices on the market