AgentBay vs BoxLite Cloud

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

AgentBay
BoxLite Cloud
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
BoxLite Cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: No
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
BoxLite Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317

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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 $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 32 GiB.

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need pause and resume.

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