BoxCompute vs Runloop
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Runloop runs microVMs.
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BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- 42 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
Runloop
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Runloop: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- Runloop: MicroVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxComputeboxcompute
Runlooprunloop
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- Runloop: $0.634
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxCompute fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Runloop fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You want the larger free credit: $50 against $10.
- You need snapshots.
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