BoxCompute vs Tenki Sandbox

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Tenki Sandbox costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Tenki Sandbox runs full VMs.

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BoxCompute

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

Tenki Sandbox

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Tenki Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Tenki Sandbox: Per second
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Tenki Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Tenki Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Tenki Sandbox: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Tenki Sandbox: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Tenki Sandbox: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Tenki Sandbox fits when

  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $10.
  • You need snapshots.

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