BoxCompute vs Brimble Sandboxes

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and has no session limit. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours.

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BoxCompute

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Max session
No limit

Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Brimble Sandboxes
Free tier
BoxCompute: $5 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
BoxCompute: No limit
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 4 vCPU · 16 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Up to 8
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Snapshots
BoxCompute: No
Brimble Sandboxes:
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Integrations
BoxCompute: Claude Code, MCP
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Free tier
BoxCompute: $5 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: No limit
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 30 minutes
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 4 vCPU · 16 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Up to 8
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: No
Brimble Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Brimble Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Integrations
BoxCompute: Claude Code, MCP
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Brimble Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • A session must run longer than 6 hours.
  • 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.

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You need snapshots.

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