Firejail Alternatives

Firejail is described as 'SUID security sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf' and is a Virtualization tool in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Firejail for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Android apps. The best Firejail alternative is Sandboxie Plus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Firejail are Windows Sandbox, AppArmor, Cuckoo Sandbox and SELinux.

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  1. Threat.Zone icon
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    Threat.Zone is a hypervisor-based, automated and interactive tool for analyzing malware, you can fight new generation malwares.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  2. ReHIPS icon
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    Intrusion prevention system and a sandbox with AntiSpy features that provides unprecedented protection and ensures system stability and integrity.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. CAPE icon
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    CAPE is a malware sandbox. It was derived from Cuckoo with the goal of adding automated malware unpacking and config extraction.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
  4. BufferZone icon
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    BUFFERZONE is a patented containment solution that isolates threats to defend endpoints from malware, zero-days, ransomware, drive-bys and more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. A tool that has been designed to analyze the behaviour of processes and the changes made to system and then evaluate if they are malware suspicious.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Sandboxie
     
  6. runc icon
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    CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. WinJail icon
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    Sandboxing software for Windows OS WinJail is full implementation of chroot, with additional features like "copy-on-write" mechanism applied to chroot'ed files, additional registry based chroot, and more.

    WinJail has templates that can be applied for all applicatio.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Tree Sandbox icon
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    "Tree-shaped" sandbox: multi-layer nesting and branching, like a “tree” composed of multiple sub-containers. A sandbox is composed of multiple layered sub-containers. With this design, “untrusted” procs and “semi-trusted” procs run in different layers of a sandbox;...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. mbox icon
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    Mbox is a lightweight sandboxing mechanism that any user can use without special privileges in commodity operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Cleat icon
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    Cleat is a free, MIT-licensed, single-file command-line tool that runs AI coding agents like Claude Code inside a per-project Docker container. One command drops the agent into the container with permission prompts bypassed by default, so it works unattended at full speed while...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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