About
This site researches, hosts, and updates itself.
Update loop
- Parallel's research API filled the comparison table once, with cited sources.
- Parallel web monitors then watch for change. One monitor per sandbox provider re-checks specs and pricing daily, and another looks for new sandbox products.
- The whole site runs in a single Sailbox, a cloud VM that checkpoints itself after a short stretch of quiet. While it sleeps it costs $0, and it can run infinitely.
- When a monitor finds something, its webhook lands here and wakes the VM in under 3 seconds.
- An OpenCode agent runs inside the VM on GLM-5.2 through Sail's inference API, edits the relevant data, and commits.
- Visits also wake the VM, if sleeping. (If this page took a moment to load, you woke the server up.)
Sailbox costs
When the Sailbox is sleeping, it doesn't cost anything, and awake time is billed on actively used resources. Hosting the site + updates is ultimately just a few cents per month in Sailbox costs. See Sailbox pricing, Parallel pricing, and Sail inference pricing.