BoxCompute vs Together Sandbox

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Together Sandbox costs $0.0446 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Together Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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BoxCompute

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

Together Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Together Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Together Sandbox: Per second
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Together Sandbox: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Together Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Together Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Together Sandbox:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Together Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Together Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Together Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Together Sandbox: $0.074
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Together Sandbox: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Together Sandbox: $0.298

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • 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.

Together Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 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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