BoxCompute vs Upstash Box

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Upstash Box runs containers.

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BoxCompute

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

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Upstash Box
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Upstash Box: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Upstash Box: $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.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB.

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