BoxCompute vs BoxLite Cloud

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs.

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BoxCompute

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

BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxCompute
BoxLite Cloud
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
BoxLite Cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: No
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
BoxLite Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
BoxLite Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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 want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $10.

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