Lizard, compared
Head-to-head comparisons against the 9 platforms people actually weigh us against. Every figure comes from the other platform’s own published pricing, every page says where they win, and every page is dated. Last verified: 4 November 2026.
Sandboxes for AI agents
AI sandbox pricing per hour: 12 providers comparedHourly CPU and memory prices for AI sandboxes on 12 providers, including E2B, Daytona, Modal and Vercel. Estimate a month for your workload.Configuration
E2B vs Daytona
E2B and Daytona have equal listed CPU and RAM rates for this allocation. Compare plans, memory pause, runtime choices and Lizard's fixed-size alternative.
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Daytona vs Modal
Daytona starts faster in our test: 819 ms median, with cheaper compute. Pick Modal for more regions.
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E2B vs Modal
E2B starts faster in our test: 264 ms median, with cheaper compute. Pick Modal for GPUs or more regions.
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Lizard vs E2B
Compare Lizard and E2B for AI code execution: complete monthly cost, concurrency, runtime, templates and memory pause. Includes a migration checklist.
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Vercel alternative
Vercel runs containers but not processes. Lizard vs Vercel on limits, first-party Postgres and Redis, and $0.0250128 against $0.128 per vCPU-hour.
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Netlify alternative
Netlify bills in credits and runs no long-lived processes. Lizard vs Netlify on backends, databases and cost.
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DigitalOcean alternative
DigitalOcean makes you size the droplet or write the app spec. Lizard takes one command, sizes nothing, and bills per second.
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Firebase alternative
Firestore bills per read and Firebase never gives you a server process. Lizard vs Firebase: Postgres, Redis, S3-compatible storage, one command.
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Supabase alternative
Supabase hosts the database; your app lives elsewhere. Lizard runs both in one project, with PostgreSQL 18 in one command and no compute add-on.
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AWS alternative
A container on AWS needs ECS, a VPC, an ALB, IAM and a registry. Lizard takes one command, with egress at $0.045 against $0.09.
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AWS Lambda alternative
Lambda caps at 15 minutes and a cold start, and bills per request. Lizard vs AWS Lambda on long-running work and what an always-warm function costs.
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Cloudflare Workers alternative
Workers run V8 isolates, not Node — no native modules, no long-lived processes. Lizard vs Cloudflare Workers on runtime, CPU-time billing and egress.
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Coolify vs Dokploy
Coolify and Dokploy give you a Heroku on your own VPS for the price of the server. What each one is, and the point where a managed platform costs less.
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