AgentBay vs boxes.dev

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

boxes.dev

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

AgentBay
boxes.dev
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
boxes.dev: $0.1875
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
boxes.dev: Included
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
boxes.dev: Up to 10

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
boxes.dev: $0.1875
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
boxes.dev: Included
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
boxes.dev: Not listed
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
boxes.dev: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
boxes.dev: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
boxes.dev: Not listed
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
boxes.dev:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
boxes.dev:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
boxes.dev: Not listed
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
boxes.dev: Not listed

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
boxes.dev
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
boxes.dev: $0.188
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
boxes.dev: $0.375
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
boxes.dev: $0.750

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

boxes.dev fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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