BoxCompute vs Vers

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Vers costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Vers runs full VMs.

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BoxCompute

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

Vers

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Starting credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxCompute
Vers
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Vers: $0.04
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Vers: Starting credit
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Vers: Per second
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Vers: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Vers: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Vers: Not listed
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Vers: Kept commits are billed. No rate on the pricing page.
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Vers: Starting credit
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Vers: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Vers: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Vers: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Vers: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Vers
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Vers: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Vers: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Vers: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Vers fits when

  • You need snapshots.

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