BoxCompute vs Celesto Cloud

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs.

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BoxCompute

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

Celesto Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Celesto Cloud
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Celesto Cloud: Included
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Free
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Celesto Cloud:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Celesto Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Celesto Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Celesto Cloud: $0.060

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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 want the larger free credit: $10 against $5.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Celesto Cloud fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
  • You use MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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