Ellipsis
Ellipsis is a cloud platform that runs managed coding agents (powered by Claude) on behalf of engineering teams. Each agent executes inside its own isolated Linux sandbox in Ellipsis's cloud, with credentials scoped below any developer. Agents are defined as YAML files in the user's repository and triggered on schedules, PR events, mentions, or via API, and are used for code review, automated fixes, dependency bumps, and similar engineering tasks.
| Pricing model | Per-second requested CPU and memory allocation over sandbox lifetime, plus model tokens at cost and a 40% platform fee; official pages conflict on whether the fee includes compute |
|---|---|
| Pricing The headline compute price as the provider states it. Sorting ranks prices stated per vCPU over time, converted to hourly. Other pricing models sort after, unranked. | $0.142 / vCPU-hour (Ellipsis Cloud tier) |
| Free while idle Whether a stopped, paused, or sleeping sandbox costs nothing. | ✓ |
| Elastic Resources flex with what the sandbox actually uses, and the bill follows: yes when the provider bills on active or observed use, no when capacity is reserved or allocated and billed while it runs. | ✕ |
| Memory snapshots Whether RAM state survives a pause and resume, not just disk. | ✕ |
| Wake on request Whether a stopped sandbox wakes automatically on inbound traffic. | – |
| Start / resume Typical time from create or resume to running. Sorting ranks stated times, converted to seconds; claims with no figure sort after, unranked. | ~8 s (warm snapshot boot); first session image build ~3m40s |
| Max runtime The longest a sandbox may run. | 24 h |
| Isolation The isolation technology between sandboxes. | Linux container |
| GPUs Whether GPU instances are available for sandboxes. | – |
| Docker Whether Docker containers can run inside the sandbox. | – |
| SDKs | – |
✓ yes · ✕ no · – no cited public fact.
Official sources conflict on maximum runtime and on the platform fee's scope. Detailed sandbox documentation sets the default and maximum at 1 hour, while the platform sandbox page says 24 hours; the pricing page says the fee is 40% of token cost, while the billing page says 40% of token and compute cost.
Sources
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/platform/sandbox
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/platform/cloud
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs/cloud-agents/sandboxes
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs/concepts/sandbox
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs/concepts/environments
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs/cli
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs/api
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs/sdks/python
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs/sdks/typescript
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs/sdks/go
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/pricing
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs/pricing
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs/guides/sandbox
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs/billing
Last verified 2026-08-21. Corrections land through the update log.