Novita AI Sandbox
Novita Agent Sandbox provides isolated, stateful execution environments that let AI agents run code, install dependencies, manipulate files, and use browsers or full desktops. It is used by developers building coding agents, browser-automation agents, and long-running multi-step agent workflows.
| Pricing model | Per-second billing on allocated vCPU and RAM; storage billed separately |
|---|---|
| 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. | $0.0000098 per vCPU-second ($0.0353/vCPU-hr); $0.0000032 per GiB-second ($0.0115/GiB-hr) |
| 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. | Under 200 ms on average for create; ~1 s to resume from paused |
| Max runtime The longest a sandbox may run. | 1 h (free tier); 3 h (paid tier); 4 h default, adjustable (enterprise tier) |
| Isolation The isolation technology between sandboxes. | Firecracker microVM |
| GPUs Whether GPU instances are available for sandboxes. | ✕ |
| Docker Whether Docker containers can run inside the sandbox. | – |
| SDKs | Python, JavaScript, TypeScript |
✓ yes · ✕ no · – no cited public fact.
Pausing preserves filesystem and memory state but interrupts existing network, HTTP, WebSocket, database, and terminal connections. A paused sandbox remains stored until explicitly killed. Auto-resume requires `onTimeout: "pause"` and `autoResume: true`; stored sandbox-related data may incur persistent-storage charges beyond the included allowance.
Sources
- https://novita.ai/pricing
- https://novita.ai/docs/guides/sandbox-overview
- https://novita.ai/sandbox
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Last verified 2026-08-16. Corrections land through the update log.