BoxCompute vs tama

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.

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BoxCompute

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Max session
42 hours

tama

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxCompute
tama
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
tama: $0.0055
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
tama: Per second
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
tama: $0.0055
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
tama: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
tama: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
tama: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
tama: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
tama: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
tama: Full VM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
tama:
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
tama:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
tama:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
tama: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
tama: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
tama
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
tama: $0.023
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
tama: $0.045
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
tama: $0.091

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

tama fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.045 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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