Are paused Novita sandboxes billed? | Novita AI

Paused sandboxes stop CPU and RAM billing. While paused, a sandbox’s filesystem and memory are kept in persistent storage, which is free up to 60 GB per account and $0.00009/GB/h beyond that.

Details

	Running	Paused	Killed
CPU and RAM billing	Per second	Stopped	Stopped
Storage billing	Free (20 GB ephemeral disk)	Persistent storage: 60 GB free per account, then $0.00009/GB/h	None
State kept	—	Filesystem and memory, including running processes	Deleted
Can resume	—	Yes, typically in about a second	No

To see how many sandboxes currently count toward your concurrency limit, check usage from the quota API.

How to

from novita_sandbox import Novita

novita = Novita()
sandbox = novita.sandbox.create()

sandbox.pause()                                       # stop CPU and RAM billing
sandbox = novita.sandbox.connect(sandbox.sandbox_id)  # resume with state intact

import { Novita } from 'novita-sandbox'

const novita = new Novita()
const sandbox = await novita.sandbox.create()

await sandbox.pause()                                     // stop CPU and RAM billing
const resumed = await novita.sandbox.connect(sandbox.sandboxId) // resume with state intact

Learn more: Pause and resume · Pricing

Last modified on November 11, 2026

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