Novita Agent Sandbox
Pay-per-second stateful sandboxes from the Novita GPU cloud, with pause/resume, snapshots, templates and secrets, billed by vCPU-second and GiB-second. An inexpensive, well-documented lifecycle on an undocumented isolation boundary, best for cost-sensitive US workloads.
Overview
Novita AI, a GPU cloud and model-inference provider, sells Agent Sandbox as a managed execution environment for AI agents: isolated, stateful sandboxes in which agents run code, install dependencies, drive browsers and keep state across sessions, managed from the novita-sandbox Python and Node.js SDKs or a CLI. The docs do not say what the isolation boundary is, only that each sandbox has its own runtime and filesystem with "system-level separation".
Lifecycle is well specified: a lifetime timeout and an idle timeout can each kill or pause the sandbox, pausing keeps memory and filesystem with billing stopped, and the v2 region adds snapshots and encrypted team-scoped secrets. Pricing is per vCPU-second and GiB-second with 60 GB of free persistent storage, which puts an 8 vCPU/8 GiB hour at about $0.37; the free tier caps sessions at one hour and concurrency at five, the paid tier at 24 hours and 100. Only US regions are offered (Phoenix by default, Virginia legacy). Networking controls are not documented.
Notable
- Paid tier unlocks automatically once the account balance is above $0; $100 promotional credits for new users
- v2 region us-phx-1 adds Secrets and Snapshots; us-virginia-1 is a legacy v1 region
- Product page claims under 200 ms average launch and lists a 99.95% SLA for Enterprise
Novita Agent Sandbox specifications
| Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| Isolation | Not documented beyond "system-level separation" and an isolated runtime and filesystem per sandbox; hypervisor or container runtime not named |
| Deployment | Hosted platform |
| Open source | No |
| SDKs and interfaces | Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, CLI |
| Cold start (vendor claim) | Product page: instances launch "in under 200ms on average" (vendor claim); resume from pause "typically takes about one second" |
| Max session length | Product page: 1 hour maximum per session on the free tier, 24 hours on the paid tier, custom for Enterprise; the docs describe a creation-time lifetime timeout plus an idle timeout, each of which can pause instead of kill |
| Persistence | Pausing preserves filesystem and memory and stops compute billing, with optional auto-resume; snapshots save a sandbox as a reusable environment for new sandboxes (v2 region); templates define starting environments; killed sandboxes keep nothing |
| GPU | No - GPUs are a separate Novita product; the sandbox docs and pricing list vCPU and RAM only |
| Networking | Not documented |
| Pricing | Per second: vCPU $0.0000098 per vCPU-second (1-8 vCPU), RAM $0.0000032 per GiB-second (512 MiB to 8 GiB in 512 MiB steps); persistent storage for paused sandboxes, templates and snapshots $0.00009/GB-hour beyond 60 GB free; 20 GB ephemeral disk per running sandbox. Examples: 2 vCPU/1 GiB for 1 hour about $0.08, 8 vCPU/8 GiB for 1 hour about $0.37 |
| Free tier | Free tier (5 concurrent sandboxes, 2 vCPU/4 GB, 1-hour sessions) until the balance is above $0; $100 promotional credits for new users who complete a setup survey, no card required; 60 GB persistent storage free |
| Compliance | Footer shows an AICPA SOC 2 badge and links to a trust centre; Enterprise plans list a 99.95% uptime SLA |
| Regions | us-phx-1 (v2, default; adds Secrets and Snapshots) and us-virginia-1 (v1, legacy); custom region for Enterprise |
Facts from Novita Agent Sandbox’s public documentation, verified November 9, 2026. Performance numbers are vendor claims.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- You want per-second pricing with memory-preserving pause and a generous free storage allowance
- You run browser or coding agents that need sessions up to 24 hours
- You are already a Novita customer for inference or GPUs
Trade-offs
- Isolation technology is not documented
- US regions only
- No documented network allow/deny controls
- Free tier limited to 1-hour sessions and 5 concurrent sandboxes
Good fit for: Cheap per-second code execution and browser-agent runs with pause/resume on a single US region.
How Novita Agent Sandbox compares
| Sandbox | Isolation | Open source | Self-host / BYOC | Cold start (vendor) | Max session | Snapshots / pause | GPU | SDKs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novita Agent Sandbox | Not documented | No | No / No | <200 ms (claim) | 1 h free / 24 h paid | Yes / Yes | No | Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, CLI |
| E2B | Firecracker microVM | Yes | Yes / Yes | Not documented | 1 h / 24 h (Pro) | Yes / Yes | No | Python, JavaScript/TypeScript |
| Daytona | Containers or VMs | No | Not documented / Yes | <90 ms | Unlimited | Yes / Yes | Yes | Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, Java |
| HopX | Firecracker microVM | No | No / No | ~100 ms (claim) | No cap | Not documented / Yes | Not documented | Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, CLI, REST API, MCP server |
| Blaxel | MicroVM | No | No / Yes | <25 ms resume | Unlimited (standby) | Yes / Yes | Not documented | TypeScript, Python, Go |
| Cloudflare Sandbox SDK | MicroVM (Containers) | Yes | No / No | 1–3 s | No fixed cap | Yes / Not documented | Not documented | TypeScript (Workers) |
| Beam Sandboxes | gVisor | Yes | Yes / Yes | ~0.5 s | Configurable | Yes / Yes | Yes | Python, TypeScript |
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Sources
Cite this page
Agent Sandboxes. (2026). Novita Agent Sandbox. agentsandboxes.org. Last reviewed November 9, 2026. https://agentsandboxes.org/sandboxes/novita-sandbox/
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