BoxCompute vs Depot Agent Sandboxes

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Depot Agent Sandboxes runs containers.

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BoxCompute

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

Depot Agent Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

1 field differs. The rest are the same or not listed.

BoxCompute
Depot Agent Sandboxes
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

BoxComputeboxcompute.ai
Depot Agent Sandboxesdepot.dev/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: $20 / month
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Container
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Depot Agent Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Depot Agent Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed

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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.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Depot Agent Sandboxes fits when

  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

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