BoxCompute vs CoreWeave Sandboxes
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.
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BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- 42 hours
CoreWeave Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 720 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
CoreWeave Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxComputeboxcompute
CoreWeave Sandboxescoreweave
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
CoreWeave Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxCompute fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 42 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need snapshots.
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