BoxCompute vs Qiniu Cloud Sandbox

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and has no session limit. Qiniu Cloud Sandbox limits a session to 1 hour.

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BoxCompute

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

Qiniu Cloud Sandbox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
1 hour

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Per second
Max session
BoxCompute: No limit
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: 1 hour
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Free
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: No limit
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: 1 hour
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Go
Integrations
BoxCompute: Claude Code
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • A session must run longer than 1 hour.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Qiniu Cloud Sandbox fits when

  • You need a sandbox larger than 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB.

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