BoxCompute vs Sailboxes
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.
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BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- 42 hours
Sailboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
Sailboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Sailboxes: $0.015
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Sailboxes: $0.008
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Sailboxes: Per second
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Sailboxes: No limit
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Sailboxesdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Sailboxes: $0.015
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Sailboxes: $0.008
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Sailboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Sailboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- Sailboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sailboxes:
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- Sailboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- Sailboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
Sailboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- Sailboxes: $0.031
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- Sailboxes: $0.062
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- Sailboxes: $0.124
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxCompute fits when
- You want the larger free credit: $10 against $5.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Sailboxes fits when
- A session must run longer than 42 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.
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