boxd vs boxes.dev

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs.

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boxd

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 credit with a payment method
Max session
Not listed

boxes.dev

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxd
boxes.dev
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
boxes.dev: $0.1875
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
boxes.dev: Included
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
boxes.dev: $0.1875
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
boxes.dev: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Not listed
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
boxes.dev: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
boxes.dev: Not listed
GPU
boxd: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
boxes.dev:
Pause and resume
boxd:
boxes.dev:

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
boxes.dev: Not listed
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
boxes.dev: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
boxes.dev
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
boxes.dev: $0.188
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
boxes.dev: $0.375
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
boxes.dev: $0.750

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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