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OneCLI alternative

OneCLI combines sandboxed agents, a durable workspace volume and a gateway for granted credentials, policy and approvals. Its platform-kept agent memory survives between turns. Compare those application features and retained workspace with the full Linux installation your agent may need to preserve.

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Reviewed 2026-10-18 · Published by the Sandbox0 team

When OneCLI fits

OneCLI fits teams that want durable agent identities, schedules, business integrations and policy-controlled access, with cloud or self-operated control-plane choices. Its gateway can also work with external agents already running elsewhere.

When to consider Sandbox0

Consider Sandbox0 when persistence must include the whole writable RootFS, such as system tools and configuration outside the workspace, with online growth and supported paused-file access. Retain or implement the gateway, approvals, agent harness and model layer separately; check runner/Docker requirements rather than assuming a drop-in integration.

Capabilities

OneCLI and Sandbox0: what persists?

Feature comparison with documentation and verification status
Environment and runtime lifetimeOneCLINot established in this reviewSandbox0ttl and hard_ttl default to 0 (disabled). Configure idle pause and deletion policies for the same persistent sandbox identity; an idle running sandbox still accrues compute charges.Read documentation →
Persistent filesOneCLIA durable workspace volume survives sandbox park and wake; this does not establish full-RootFS scope.View evidence ↗Sandbox0The writable RootFS survives successful checkpoints, including software, system configuration, dependencies, and user data.Read documentation →
Whole RootFSOneCLIRetention of system paths outside the durable workspace volume is not established.View evidence ↗Sandbox0Persistence extends beyond /workspace to paths such as /usr/local, /etc, and /home. Runtime tmpfs and virtual filesystems are excluded.Read documentation →
Release compute, keep stateOneCLIPark/wake retains the workspace; arbitrary process-memory continuation is not established.View evidence ↗Sandbox0Pause compute between tasks; resume on available capacity. Default resume starts fresh processes from the saved filesystem.Read documentation →
Memory and process stateOneCLIThe reviewed park/wake documentation does not establish arbitrary RAM/process checkpoints.View evidence ↗Sandbox0Experimental memory checkpoints can preserve compatible process state. Use memory: true on both pause and resume on a compatible deployment. A filesystem checkpoint alone does not preserve running processes.Read documentation →

Online RootFS growth

On growth-enabled images, Sandbox0 automatically expands the writable RootFS as free space runs low, within a configured sparse logical ceiling up to 64 TiB. Agent processes keep running. Growth is enabled in the qualified Cloud region; confirm activation for other regions. Existing images and snapshots retain their captured storage geometry. The ceiling is logical capacity, not preallocated host disk.

OneCLI explicitly preserves a durable workspace through park/wake and keeps learned agent memory. The reviewed docs do not establish automatic growth of a complete Linux RootFS or retention of installed system changes outside that workspace. Sandbox0 includes those system paths in its persistent RootFS.

Files while compute is paused

Sandbox0's Files API reads persistent files without resuming compute. Filesystem-only pauses also permit edits; retained-memory pauses are read-only and reject mutations with 409. SSH, SFTP, file watching, and runtime-only mounts require running compute.

Editing platform-kept agent memory or granting connections is not the same as modifying files in a paused full Linux RootFS. The reviewed OneCLI material does not establish that complete filesystem interface.

See paused file operations →

Workspace retention is explicitly supported

The architecture guide says a sandbox has a durable workspace volume that survives park and wake. The runner wakes work for a message or schedule and parks idle sandboxes; learned memory is kept by the platform. Those are useful retention features. The reviewed docs do not establish the same contract for every system path outside that volume or for arbitrary process RAM.

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Policy and human approvals belong to the agent application

OneCLI describes routing sandbox HTTP requests through a gateway that evaluates policy and injects granted credentials. Matching actions can pause for approval, with expiry denying the action. A Linux runtime’s isolation and network controls do not automatically reproduce the application’s identity, integration and approval flows.

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Own-model-key and self-hosted editions are different choices

On the price page, BYOC means bringing an Anthropic or OpenAI key, not bringing a cloud account. That lowers Team and Scale fees but leaves provider usage on your account. Separately, the docs offer free Community self-hosting and a commercial Enterprise edition with additional integrations and policy features; do not apply the enterprise-only pricing FAQ to all self-hosted software.

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Pricing

Compare billing models, then price your workload

CPU allocation, memory, billing minimums, disk, plan fees, and supported workload differ. These meters are not equal-performance machine quotes. Confirm region, resource units, and included allowances before estimating a total.

OneCLI

Pricing reviewed 2026-10-18

Free
$0; $5 initial AI credits and 500 calls/month
Three human seats and three agent identities. The card/Free FAQ caps calls despite broader FAQ wording about all integrations.
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Team, own model key
$149/month
Five users and ten agent identities; model provider bills your usage separately.
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Team, hosted models
$499/month
Hosted-model fair usage applies; the FAQ says exhausted windows route requests to a lightweight model.
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Scale, own model key
$499/month
Ten users and 20 agent identities; extra human seats $49/user/month in this mode.
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Community self-hosted software
Free, open source
You supply infrastructure and app credentials; commercial Enterprise has separate features and terms.
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The hosted-model Scale price is $1,999/month, distinct from the $499 own-key selection. Agents are identities counted across projects, not a published CPU/RAM allocation. The pricing page’s Free allowance is 500 monthly calls while another FAQ says all plans have no call quotas; do not assume unlimited Free calls. Confirm actual infrastructure coverage, model windows and enterprise terms for the deployment you choose.

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Sandbox0

$0.015/GiB-hour compute (billed by the second at approximately $0.000004167/GiB-second), plus $0.02/GiB-month of retained incremental RootFS and memory checkpoint data. Shared base images and platform recovery retention are excluded; paused sandboxes accrue storage charges only.

Compute / GiB-hour
$0.015
Retained data / GiB-month
$0.02
Paused compute
$0.00

A 4 GiB agent, 100 running hours

$6.00 compute

4 GiB × 100 hours, billed by the second. Keeping 20 GiB of billable incremental data for a full billing month adds $0.40. CPU is derived from memory by the platform; choose a tier that fits your workload.

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Before migrating from OneCLI

  1. Inventory agent identities, workspace contents, system-level changes, gateway/approval rules and hosted-model versus own-key billing.
  2. Retain or port the application layer while moving compatible agent tools to Sandbox0; qualify runner dependencies and credential/network integrations explicitly.
  3. Test workspace and system-path retention, park/restart behavior, online RootFS growth, paused files and full seats/models/infrastructure costs.

Common questions

Is Sandbox0 a drop-in OneCLI replacement?

Evaluate API compatibility and product scope. These products serve different core workflows, so a change may require a different architecture.

Does keeping files also keep a running agent?

Filesystem state and volatile process state are separate. Sandbox0 requires explicit compatible memory checkpoints to preserve running processes; its default filesystem resume starts fresh processes.

Sources and review scope

The Boat team's Battleships directory is the discovery source. References below describe the product and plan discussed on this page. Check current availability, regional terms and billing units before migrating. Where the cited material does not establish a capability or price, the comparison identifies that uncertainty.

Battleships research record ↗onecli.sh/docs/how-it-works.md ↗onecli.sh/pricing ↗onecli.sh/docs/self-hosting/overview.md ↗Sandbox0 RootFS capacity →

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