BoxCompute vs Solari

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and has no session limit. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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BoxCompute

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Max session
No limit

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Solari
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Solari: $0.0165
Free tier
BoxCompute: $5 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Solari: $3 credit every month
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Solari: Per second
Max session
BoxCompute: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 4 vCPU · 16 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Up to 8
Solari: Up to 10
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Snapshots
BoxCompute: No
Solari:
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
BoxCompute: Claude Code, MCP
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
BoxCompute: $5 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 30 minutes
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 4 vCPU · 16 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Up to 8
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: No
Solari:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
BoxCompute: Claude Code, MCP
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Solari: $0.342

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the larger free credit: $5 against $3.

Solari fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.171 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 16 GiB.

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