Agent37
Ranked 5 of 12 cloud sandboxes by recommenders
Low-cost agent sandboxes, cheaper than Boat and Cloudflare by many people's comparisons. Caveat: gVisor limits, and low prices only for preset templates.
Low-cost agent sandboxes, cheaper than Boat and Cloudflare by many people's comparisons. Caveat: gVisor limits, and low prices only for preset templates.
17 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 15
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 15 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 7.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Much cheaper than alternatives
“This is amazing! We are using Box (now Boat dev) and yours is the first offering that looked even more economical.”
Comment from 13 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents” “if you can use sprites you can use agent37. We're also about 94% lower cost than them.”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents” “our default sandboxes are about 2.8X cheaper than boat”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents” - Comment from 13 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents”
- Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents”
- Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents”
Better price-performance for tasks
“agent37 is an order of magnitude better in price/performance ratio for any given task”
Comment from 14 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents” “pricing is certainly appealing”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents” Easy setup and use
“Agent 37 is literally the easiest Openclaw setup at this point”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Open source setup to self-host OpenClaw instances on any host” “super easy to set up and use”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents” Promising infrastructure and direction
“This is really impressive work on the infrastructure side.”
Comment from 13 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents” “This feels like the right direction.”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Hard to earn value at this price
“It's hard to make a sustainable business when selling something that costs $5 a month to developers”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents” “it will be difficult to capture much value selling this offering”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents”
Other cloud sandboxes people recommend
The four most recommended other cloud sandboxes, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sprites | 58 | 30 | 66% | 11 | 3 mo4 owners | — |
| E2B | 23 | 4 | 85% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Deno Sandbox | 21 | 9 | 70% | 4 | — | Approved |
| Freestyle Sandboxes | 20 | 8 | 71% | 2 | — | — |
| Agent37This page | 15 | 2 | 88% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
22 of the 27 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“agent37 is an order of magnitude better in price/performance ratio for any given task”
“What I find though is 80% of the times these are good enough.”
“This is really impressive work on the infrastructure side.”
“the low prices are only for pre-defined agent templates like hermes/pi/opencode”
“capabilities wise we have to limit certain things on what gvisor based sandboxes can do”
“This is amazing! We are using Box (now Boat dev) and yours is the first offering that looked even more economical.”
“It's about 30X lower cost than cloudflare sandboxes.”
“This feels like the right direction.”
“as you bump more RAM, agent37 is around 5x cheaper”
“It's hard to make a sustainable business when selling something that costs $5 a month to developers”
“if you can use sprites you can use agent37. We're also about 94% lower cost than them.”
“Sandboxes look a bit commoditized.”
“our default sandboxes are about 2.8X cheaper than boat”
“we're about 3X cheaper than boat”
“Pretty cool, trying it out.”
“it will be difficult to capture much value selling this offering”
“pricing is certainly appealing”
“super easy to set up and use”
“streamlines workflows, enhances productivity, and enables teams to focus on their core tasks.”
“Agent 37 is literally the easiest Openclaw setup at this point”
“it's just a more powerful agentic CustomGPT that they can easily monetize”
“Making skills instantly usable via a link is a big unlock.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.