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CodeSandbox pricing
CodeSandbox publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the development tools tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
CodeSandbox plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
Where CodeSandbox stops being free
Free, Free
- Public sandboxes
- Basic sandbox usage
No paid tier on record
CodeSandbox lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full CodeSandbox feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
core
- Instant sandboxes
- Browser-based editor
- CI/CD sandbox support
- Scalable VM infrastructure
integration
- Programmatic sandbox API
security
- Secure isolated execution
People bring CodeSandbox in for running ai agent-generated code safely in isolation, prototyping and sharing web projects in-browser, executing untrusted code for a code playground product, using sandboxes as ephemeral ci/cd build environments. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to CodeSandbox are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Development Tools
Too few development tools tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CodeSandbox (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| StackBlitz | Free | freemium | - | vs CodeSandbox |
| RubyMine | $24/month | subscription | - | vs CodeSandbox |
| JetBrains Rider | $18.25/month | subscription | - | vs CodeSandbox |
| Pieces for Developers | Free, then $18.99/month | freemium | - | vs CodeSandbox |
| PhpStorm | $24/month | subscription | - | vs CodeSandbox |
| PartyKit | Free | freemium | - | vs CodeSandbox |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the CodeSandbox badges page.
Before you pay for CodeSandbox
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
CodeSandbox runs on web, api, and is published by CodeSandbox. The full record is on the CodeSandbox review, and the rest of the category is under best development tools tools.
CodeSandbox pricing questions
- How much does CodeSandbox cost?
- CodeSandbox publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.
- Does CodeSandbox have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers public sandboxes, basic sandbox usage.
- Which development tools tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 development tools tools listed alongside CodeSandbox have a free tier: StackBlitz, Pieces for Developers, PartyKit, Notepad++, Helix.
- What am I actually paying for with CodeSandbox?
- The record lists 6 features across 3 areas: core, integration, security. In practice it is brought in for running ai agent-generated code safely in isolation, prototyping and sharing web projects in-browser, executing untrusted code for a code playground product.
- Does CodeSandbox charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these CodeSandbox prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare CodeSandbox against before paying?
- The closest development tools tools in this directory are StackBlitz, RubyMine, JetBrains Rider, Pieces for Developers. Each has a side-by-side comparison with CodeSandbox covering price, platforms and features.