BoxCompute vs HopX
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and HopX costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. HopX 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
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
HopX
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- HopX: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- HopX: $0.0162
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- HopX: $200 credit
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- HopX: Per second
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- HopX: No limit
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- HopX: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- HopX: Python, JavaScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxComputeboxcompute
HopXhopx
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- HopX: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- HopX: $0.0162
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- HopX: $200 credit
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- HopX: Pay as you go
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- HopX: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- HopX: No limit
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- HopX: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- HopX: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- HopX: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- HopX:
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- HopX: Python, JavaScript
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- HopX: MCP
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- HopX: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
HopX
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- HopX: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- HopX: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- HopX: $0.331
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 need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
HopX fits when
- A session must run longer than 42 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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