BoxCompute vs Tensorlake Sandboxes

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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BoxCompute

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

Tensorlake Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, $0 forever
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Tensorlake Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Tensorlake Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Tensorlake Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.

Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • A session must run longer than 42 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.

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