BoxCompute vs Oblien Workspace

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs.

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BoxCompute

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

Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Oblien Workspace
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: No
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Oblien Workspace:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Oblien Workspace:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Oblien Workspace
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Oblien Workspace: $0.184

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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.

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.092 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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