BoxCompute vs Freestyle VMs
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs.
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BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- 42 hours
Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
Freestyle VMs
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxComputeboxcompute
Freestyle VMsfreestyle
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs:
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- Freestyle VMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
Freestyle VMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxCompute fits when
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Freestyle VMs fits when
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.132 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a sandbox larger than 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB.
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