BoxCompute vs Sandbox as a Service
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and 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
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxComputeboxcompute
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
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 want the larger free credit: $10 against $5.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a sandbox larger than 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB.
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