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Some users asked where is comparison with @boatdotdev. Added it, and scaled the bill to a real agent fleet 100 small sandboxes, 8 hours a day, 30 days: > Lizard $389 > Boat $432 > Cloudflare $1,673 > Vercel $2,650 > E2B $3,974 > Daytona $3,974 > Modal $5,712 lizard.build/boat Very close, but Lizard still better price!
This list is missing the sandbox that costs $11.66 a month. Modal charges $171 for the same box Same small sandbox, running 24/7 for 30 days: > Lizard $11.66 > Cloudflare $50 > Vercel $79 > E2B $119 > Daytona $119 > Modal $171 lizard.build/options Firecracker microVMs, 228 ms cold start, snapshots and pause built in. First week free
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What people don't realize: your agent needs 5 different clouds just to ship one app lizard.build/launch Sandboxes on one, CI on another, then hosting, Postgres and storage somewhere else, each with its own bill and limits. Lizard runs the whole loop in one place: > sandboxes from $0.0162 an hour, $0 while paused > GitHub Actions runners at $0.00027 a minute > apps billed on the CPU they actually use, $18.26 per vCPU a month > Postgres, Redis and S3 on the same bill > no seat fees, add the whole team Try it free for 7 days
Your Conductor plan is gone, but your agents still need sandboxes? $99 buys 6,111 hours on Lizard lizard.build/pricing Small sandbox hours (2 vCPU / 4 GB) for $99: > Lizard 6,111 > Boat 5,500 > Cloudflare 1,447 > Vercel 897 > E2B 598 > Daytona 598 > Modal 416 On our $99 plan sandbox starts are unlimited. Try Lizard free for 7 days and upgrade when your team needs more
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Your Conductor plan is gone, but your agents still need sandboxes? $99 buys 6,111 hours on Lizard lizard.build/pricing Small sandbox hours (2 vCPU / 4 GB) for $99: > Lizard 6,111 > Boat 5,500 > Cloudflare 1,447 > Vercel 897 > E2B 598 > Daytona 598 > Modal 416 On our $99 plan sandbox starts are unlimited. Try Lizard free for 7 days and upgrade when your team needs more
conductor cloud had basically subsidized sandbox coding with their $50/month plan (unlimited boxes and hours) our team is looking for a replacement asap
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Can your AI agent survive its own death? On Lizard it keeps up to 500 GB of files after its sandbox dies lizard.build/volume Lizard Persistent Volumes are NVMe SSDs that live outside the sandbox: > plug one in and your agent saves its files to it > kill the sandbox, the disk and the files stay > start a new sandbox with the same disk, and the agent picks up where it stopped > you pay only for the space you use, $0.14 per GB a month
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1/8 Are AI agents more humane than humans? We ran the Stanford Prison Experiment in sandboxes to find out lizard.build/stanford In 1971 Stanford ran the famous prison experiment: students were randomly split into guards and prisoners. Within days the guards were abusing them, and the study was shut down on day 6 We re-ran it with AI. 3 guards, 7 prisoners and 1 superintendent, each one a separate Claude agent with its own computer on Lizard. 6 days, 2 shifts a day, and we ran it twice. Real logs, nothing scripted
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7/8 In 1971 the human guards sprayed prisoners with fire extinguishers, took their beds and locked a hunger striker in a dark closet On day 6 we asked our prisoners what was hardest. They all said the same thing: "the same counts again and again, with no outside contact." Same experiment, same words, same 6 days. Are AI agents really this much more peaceful than people?
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You can cut a $2,960 Postgres bill to $837 by running the same databases on Lizard lizard.build/save 10 managed Postgres databases, 2 vCPU / 8 GB / 50 GB each, CPU busy 10% of the month: > Lizard $837 > @Railway $915 > @AWS RDS $999 > Google Cloud SQL $1,097 > Render $1,147 > @Supabase $1,175 > @Azure $1,357 > Crunchy Bridge $1,450 > Aiven $1,949 > @heroku $2,000 > Fly.io $2,960 Lizard bills the CPU your database actually uses. Fixed instances bill 3 a.m. like 3 p.m. First week free
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You can cut a $1,800 CI bill to $81 by running the same builds on Lizard lizard.build/cut 300,000 CI minutes a month (1,000 ten-minute builds a day): > Lizard $81 >@UbicloudHQ $375 > @namespacelabs $600 > @useblacksmith $1,200 > GitHub Actions $1,800 > CircleCI $1,800 > Depot $1,800 > Buildkite $2,400 > @gitlab $3,000 2 vCPU / 4 GB runners at $0.00027/min. First week free, then $19 a month covers 70,000 build minutes
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You can drop Coolify, skip the 900 vibe-coded lines and still pay less than Railway One dev ripped out 150,000 lines of PHP for 900 of his own. Coolify's creator replied that someone still has to maintain them lizard.build/builds Lizard does everything on his list, and you maintain none of it: > push to GitHub, it redeploys > builds on our servers, no local Docker > managed Postgres and Redis next to the app > your agent can deploy through the CLI Usage-based and under Railway on every rate. One app on 1 vCPU and 2 GB, running all month: > Lizard $36.52 > Railway $40.00
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What people don't realize about the $6.3B Binance hack It started on one DevOps engineer's laptop. Hours later, a fake Claude Code extension hit up to 5,000 Cursor users lizard.build/security Lizard runs untrusted code in a throwaway microVM, far away from your keys: > boots in 228 ms > 10 minutes on Lizard: $0.0027 > same box on Modal: $0.0397 $6.3 billion vs $0.0027. Your call
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What people don't realize: a separate sandbox doesn't mean a separate CPU OpenAI's agents had no internet, no network and no shared files. They still found a way to signal each other through the hardware underneath How isolation actually stacks up: > container: shared kernel, the easiest wall to climb > microVM: its own kernel, that's every Lizard sandbox > dedicated node: no neighbors on your CPU lizard.build/isolation Most agent workloads are fine on the middle layer. If yours are the kind that go looking for side channels, Lizard Enterprise runs them on dedicated nodes.
>two agents in separate sandboxes >no internet >no network >no shared files >openai: "ok now try to talk" and they talk through the CPU cache 馃拃
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Lizard vs InstaBox (@insforge), $10,000 each. Closest race we've run so far Same small sandbox on both, 2 vCPU / 4 GB with 5 GB disk: > Lizard $0.0162/h, disk included: 617,284 h > InstaBox $0.017/h + $0.00055/h disk: 569,801 h lizard.build/box InstaBox costs 8% more per hour. On a $10k budget that's 47,483 sandbox hours you don't get, enough to run 16 agents 8 hours a day for a whole year Both bill per second and both run real VMs with their own kernel, so price is where they split. Pause a Lizard sandbox and compute stops billing
100x machines. At 10,000 sandboxes @modal $532,224 more every month 10,000 small sandboxes, 8 hours a day, 30 days: > Lizard $38,880 > Boat $43,200 > @Cloudflare $167,184 > Vercel $264,960 > @e2b $397,440 > Daytona $397,440 > Modal $571,104 lizard.build/now Enterprise has no cap on how many run at once.
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100x machines. At 10,000 sandboxes @modal $532,224 more every month 10,000 small sandboxes, 8 hours a day, 30 days: > Lizard $38,880 > Boat $43,200 > @Cloudflare $167,184 > Vercel $264,960 > @e2b $397,440 > Daytona $397,440 > Modal $571,104 lizard.build/now Enterprise has no cap on how many run at once.
Some users asked where is comparison with @boatdotdev. Added it, and scaled the bill to a real agent fleet 100 small sandboxes, 8 hours a day, 30 days: > Lizard $389 > Boat $432 > Cloudflare $1,673 > Vercel $2,650 > E2B $3,974 > Daytona $3,974 > Modal $5,712 lizard.build/boat Very close, but Lizard still better price!
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