BoxCompute vs Declaw

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours.

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BoxCompute

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

Declaw

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
72 hours

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Declaw
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Declaw: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Declaw: $0.0162
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Declaw: Per second
Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Declaw: 72 hours
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Declaw: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Declaw: $0.0162
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Declaw: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Declaw: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Declaw: 72 hours
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Declaw: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Declaw: Up to 500

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Declaw: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Declaw:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Declaw:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
Declaw: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Declaw: Deploy in your VPC. Book a call.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Declaw
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Declaw: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Declaw: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Declaw: $0.331

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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 a desktop in the sandbox.

Declaw fits when

  • A session must run longer than 42 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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