Question 1

What is an AI code sandbox?

Accepted Answer

An AI code sandbox is an isolated, disposable environment where AI agents and LLM applications can safely execute generated code without access to your infrastructure. PillDrops provides these as isolated Linux machines with their own kernel, filesystem, and network, created and destroyed through an API.

Question 2

How does PillDrops run AI-generated code securely?

Accepted Answer

Every sandbox is isolated from the host and from other sandboxes: a dedicated microVM with its own kernel on KVM nodes, an isolated container on Docker nodes. Plan limits are enforced server-side, and sandboxes are destroyed completely when the session ends.

Question 3

How fast do sandboxes start?

Accepted Answer

Templates keep warm pools of pre-booted sandboxes: a pool hit attaches in milliseconds, and a cold boot takes seconds.

Question 4

How long can a sandbox run?

Accepted Answer

Up to 24 hours per session on paid plans (4 hours on Free), with pause and resume to stop compute billing while keeping filesystem state.

Question 5

Can my agent control a web browser or a desktop?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The playwright templates ship a ready browser-automation stack, and the desktop template boots a full Linux desktop streamed over VNC for computer-use agents.

Question 6

What languages and runtimes are supported?

Accepted Answer

Ready-made templates — Python 3.11, Node 20, Go, Rust, FastAPI, Next.js, a code-interpreter stack, browser, Playwright, desktop and Android-emulator images, a mobile-test runner, and five coding-agent CLIs — plus custom images from any Dockerfile.

Question 7

Is PillDrops just a sandbox?

Accepted Answer

A sandbox is one primitive inside it. PillDrops is the execution layer for AI software engineering: code interpreters, real browsers, a Linux desktop, an Android emulator, preview URLs, and a verify API that returns a GREEN/RED verdict on what your agent built — all behind one create call, each run in its own isolated machine.

Question 8

I'm on E2B — how hard is switching?

Accepted Answer

The SDK reads E2B_API_KEY as a fallback, so most code moves with a package swap. You gain per-second billing, 24-hour sessions with pause/resume, Android and desktop templates, and an open-source engine you can self-host.

Question 9

Can I self-host PillDrops?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The engine is open source under Apache 2.0. Run one binary with a built-in dashboard on a single box, or a control plane with many nodes, on a KVM host or Docker.

Question 10

How much does it cost?

Accepted Answer

Compute is metered per second: $0.0000140 per vCPU-second and $0.0000045 per GB-second of RAM, plus $0.15/GB-month storage. A 2-vCPU, 2 GB sandbox costs about $0.13 per hour. New accounts get $5 of free credits.

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