BoxCompute vs MIOSA

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and has no session limit. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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BoxCompute

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Max session
No limit

MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

BoxCompute
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
MIOSA: $0.01458
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
MIOSA: Per second
Max session
BoxCompute: No limit
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
BoxCompute: Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
MIOSA: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: No limit
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
MIOSA: Up to 250

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
BoxCompute: Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
MIOSA: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
MIOSA: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
MIOSA: $0.298

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.

MIOSA fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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