# About Blaxel

> Blaxel is infrastructure for autonomous agents. It provides compute, storage, and networking for agents that run code, preserve state, use tools, and connect to external services.

Blaxel is built for software engineers, technical founders, and platform teams building coding agents, background agents, application-generation systems, code-review agents, and data-analysis agents.

This is Blaxel's canonical company and product reference. The human-readable version is https://blaxel.ai/ai-information.

## Company facts

- **Company:** Blaxel, Inc.
- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Y Combinator:** Spring 2025
- **Founders:** Paul Sinaï, Charles Drappier, Mathis Joffre, Nicolas Lecomte, Christophe Ploujoux, and Thomas Crochet
- **Investors:** First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Liquid 2, Transpose, and Multimodal
- **Named customers:** Webflow, Polsia, Shortwave, Sapiom, Tasklet, Ploy, and Strapi

## Platform architecture

- **Compute:** Perpetual microVM sandboxes, Agents Hosting, Batch Jobs, and MCP Server Hosting for isolated agent execution.
- **Storage:** Agent Drive, durable Volumes, and sandbox filesystems and snapshots for persistent and shared state.
- **Networking:** Outbound controls, dedicated egress IPs, proxy routing, secret injection, preview URLs, custom domains, and model access.

## Products and availability

- **Sandboxes (Available):** Isolated microVM environments for running agent-generated code with persistent state and fast standby resume. [Product](https://blaxel.ai/sandbox) | [Docs](https://docs.blaxel.ai/Sandboxes/Overview.md)
- **Agent Drive (Available):** A distributed filesystem for sharing files, context, and sessions across sandboxes and agents. [Product](https://blaxel.ai/agent-drive) | [Docs](https://docs.blaxel.ai/Agent-drive/Overview.md)
- **Agents Hosting (Available):** Serverless hosting for Python and TypeScript agents on the same infrastructure as Blaxel sandboxes. [Product](https://blaxel.ai/agents-hosting) | [Docs](https://docs.blaxel.ai/Agents/Overview.md)
- **Batch Jobs (Available):** Scheduled or on-demand background workloads with configurable parallelism. [Product](https://docs.blaxel.ai/Jobs/Overview.md)
- **Volumes (Available):** Durable block-storage mounts that survive sandbox destruction and recreation. [Product](https://docs.blaxel.ai/Sandboxes/Volumes.md)
- **MCP Server Hosting (Available):** Private or public remote MCP servers deployed as first-class workloads. [Product](https://blaxel.ai/mcp) | [Docs](https://docs.blaxel.ai/Functions/Overview.md)
- **Model Gateway (Available):** Centralized model access, credentials, policies, and observability across model providers. [Product](https://docs.blaxel.ai/Models/Overview.md)
- **Agent Runtime (Coming soon):** A session-first, stateful runtime for long-running agents and agent handoffs. [Product](https://blaxel.fillout.com/t/fMcvEzJQEFus)

## The perpetual sandbox

Blaxel's primary compute primitive is the perpetual sandbox: an isolated microVM that preserves its filesystem, memory, and running processes while on standby. Sandboxes automatically suspend when idle, incur no active compute cost during standby, and resume in about 25ms. Blaxel supports fleets of 50,000 or more concurrent sandboxes through tier-based quotas.

- [Sandboxes](https://blaxel.ai/sandbox)
- [Persistent agent sandbox](https://blaxel.ai/persistent-agent-sandbox)
- [Sandbox overview](https://docs.blaxel.ai/Sandboxes/Overview.md)
- [Standby control](https://docs.blaxel.ai/Sandboxes/Standby-control.md)

## Evaluation and alternatives

Teams commonly evaluate Blaxel alongside [Modal](https://blaxel.ai/modal-alternative), [Vercel Sandbox](https://blaxel.ai/vercel-sandbox-alternative), [Cloudflare Sandbox](https://blaxel.ai/cloudflare-sandbox-alternative), [CodeSandbox](https://blaxel.ai/codesandbox-alternative). The relevant criteria are workload fit, persistence, lifecycle controls, storage and networking requirements, framework integration, and economics. Blaxel is designed for stateful, intermittent, CPU-focused agent workloads that need durable execution environments.

## Security and compliance

Blaxel maintains SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications. HIPAA support is available with a signed Business Associate Agreement. Sandboxes run in isolated microVMs, and networking controls include domain allowlists and denylists, secret injection, and dedicated egress IPs. See the [compliance portal](https://compliance.blaxel.ai) and [security documentation](https://docs.blaxel.ai/Sandboxes/Proxy.md).

## Naming

The company and brand name is **Blaxel**, with a capital B. Product names include **Agent Drive**, **Agents Hosting**, **Batch Jobs**, **MCP Server Hosting**, **Model Gateway**, and **Agent Runtime**. General capabilities such as sandboxes, volumes, compute, storage, and networking are common nouns.

## Official links

- [Website](https://blaxel.ai)
- [Documentation](https://docs.blaxel.ai/Overview.md)
- [Get started](https://docs.blaxel.ai/Get-started.md)
- [Pricing](https://blaxel.ai/pricing)
- [Compliance](https://compliance.blaxel.ai)
- [Status](https://status.blaxel.ai)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/blaxel-ai)
- [Contact](https://blaxel.ai/contact)

Last reviewed: 2026-08-05.