BoxCompute vs Containarium Cloud

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Containarium Cloud runs containers.

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BoxCompute

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

Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Containarium Cloud
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Containarium Cloud: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Containarium Cloud: Included
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Containarium Cloud: Container
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Containarium Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Containarium Cloud: $0.080

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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.

Containarium Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB.

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