BoxCompute vs Lizard Sandboxes

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Lizard Sandboxes 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

Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Lizard Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

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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 the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 42 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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