BoxCompute vs Bunny Sandbox

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Bunny Sandbox costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Bunny Sandbox runs gVisor.

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BoxCompute

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

Bunny Sandbox

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Bunny Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Bunny Sandbox: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Bunny Sandbox: $0.005
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Bunny Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Bunny Sandbox: gVisor
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Bunny Sandbox: JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Bunny Sandbox: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Bunny Sandbox: $0.005
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Bunny Sandbox: $0.10 per GB per month on the allocated 10 GB
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Bunny Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Bunny Sandbox: gVisor
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Bunny Sandbox: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Bunny Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Bunny Sandbox: $0.030
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Bunny Sandbox: $0.060
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Bunny Sandbox: $0.120

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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 pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Bunny Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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