SandboxPrice – sandbox/VM price comparison

Help AI agent developers find the cheapest sandbox/VM provider for their exact spec

Problem

Developers building AI agents see a new sandbox provider pop up on X every week and are tired of manually tracking prices across 13+ providers; one HN user was annoyed enough to build a page just to compare them.

Solution

A configurable comparison tool: users enter CPU, RAM, GPU, duration, and free-tier requirements, and it calculates real cost across sandbox/VM providers and ranks them; includes price-change alerts, region/compliance filters, and one-click export.

Users

Indie developers building AI agents, small teams, and MLOps engineers who need to run untrusted code

MVP

Seed 10–15 mainstream sandbox/VM providers with prices and specs; compute and rank total cost from user inputs; show free tiers and minimum rental periods; email alerts on price changes; an API for CI queries

Revenue

Free basic search; paid provider placement or affiliate commissions; team subscription for price monitoring and API; custom enterprise reports

Why now

AI agent sandbox demand is exploding and providers are fragmented with opaque pricing; there is no trusted comparison hub, and an indie dev can build v1 from public pricing data