BoxCompute vs Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Hyperbrowser Sandboxes costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Hyperbrowser Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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BoxCompute

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

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.150
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.300

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • You want the larger free credit: $10 against $5.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need SOC 2.

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