AgentBay vs boxd

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. boxd runs microVMs.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

boxd

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 credit with a payment method
Max session
Not listed

What is different

6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

AgentBay
boxd
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
boxd: $0.047
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
boxd: $0.014
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
boxd: MicroVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
boxd: TypeScript, Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
boxd: $0.047
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
boxd: $0.014
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
boxd: Pay as you go
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
boxd: Per second

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
boxd: Not listed
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
boxd: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
boxd: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
boxd: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
boxd: MicroVM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
boxd: Not listed
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
boxd:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
boxd:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
boxd: Not listed

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
boxd: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
boxd: Custom plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
boxd
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
boxd: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
boxd: $0.150
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
boxd: $0.300

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

boxd fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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