BoxCompute vs InstaVM
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and InstaVM costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. InstaVM runs Firecracker microVMs.
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BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- 42 hours
InstaVM
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
InstaVM
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- InstaVM: Per second
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxComputeboxcompute
InstaVMinstavm
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- InstaVM: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- InstaVM: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- InstaVM:
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- InstaVM:
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- InstaVM: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
InstaVM
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- InstaVM: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- InstaVM: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- InstaVM: $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.
InstaVM fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want the larger free credit: $50 against $10.
- You need snapshots.
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