Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions vs BoxCompute

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions runs full VMs. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours.

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Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

BoxCompute

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Max session
42 hours

What is different

No published field differs between Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions and BoxCompute.

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: Included
Storage
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: Not listed
Free tier
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Paid plan from
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: Not listed
Billing
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Idle stop
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Up to 600
BoxCompute: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Full VM
BoxCompute: Full VM
GPU
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: Not listed
Snapshots
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: Not listed
Pause and resume
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute:

Developer

SDKs
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: LangChain
BoxCompute: Not listed

Trust

License
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: Not listed
BYOC
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions
BoxCompute
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
BoxCompute: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions fits when

  • You use LangChain.

BoxCompute fits when

  • 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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