BoxCompute vs StateSet Sandbox

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and has no session limit. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor 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

StateSet Sandbox

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$25 trial credit, no card
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

BoxCompute
StateSet Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Free tier
BoxCompute: $5 credit, one time, valid 14 days
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Max session
BoxCompute: No limit
StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Up to 8
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
Snapshots
BoxCompute: No
StateSet Sandbox:
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
BoxCompute: $5 credit, one time, valid 14 days
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
StateSet Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: No limit
StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 30 minutes
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 4 vCPU · 16 GiB
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Up to 8
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: No
StateSet Sandbox:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
StateSet Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
BoxCompute: Claude Code, MCP
StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
StateSet Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
StateSet Sandbox: $0.028

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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 need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

StateSet Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want the larger free credit: $25 against $5.
  • You need snapshots.

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