BoxCompute vs CreateOS Sandbox

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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BoxCompute

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

CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

BoxCompute
CreateOS Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
CreateOS Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
CreateOS Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • A session must run longer than 42 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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