BoxCompute vs Novita Sandbox
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Novita Sandbox costs $0.03528 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Novita Sandbox 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
- 42 hours
Novita Sandbox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $100 promotional credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
Novita Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Novita Sandbox: Per second
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Novita Sandbox: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxComputeboxcompute
Novita Sandboxnovita
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Novita Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Novita Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- Novita Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
Novita Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- Novita Sandbox: $0.058
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- Novita Sandbox: $0.117
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- Novita Sandbox: $0.233
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxCompute fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Novita Sandbox fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.117 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want the larger free credit: $100 against $10.
- You need snapshots.
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