Agent Sandbox vs BoxCompute
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Agent Sandbox runs containers. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours.
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Agent Sandbox
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- Max session
- Not listed
BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- 42 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Agent Sandbox
BoxCompute
- Free tier
- Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Billing
- Agent Sandbox: Per second
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Idle stop
- Agent Sandbox: After 5 minutes
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- Isolation
- Agent Sandbox: Container
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- SDKs
- Agent Sandbox: Python
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Agent Sandboxagentsandbox
BoxComputeboxcompute
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Included
- Storage
- Agent Sandbox: $0.0005 per MB for output files
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Free tier
- Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Paid plan from
- Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Billing
- Agent Sandbox: Per second
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Idle stop
- Agent Sandbox: After 5 minutes
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Agent Sandbox: Container
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- GPU
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute:
Developer
- SDKs
- Agent Sandbox: Python
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- BYOC
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Agent Sandbox
BoxCompute
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- BoxCompute: $0.400
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxCompute fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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