boxd vs BoxLite Cloud

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs.

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boxd

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

BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxd
BoxLite Cloud
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Snapshots
boxd:
BoxLite Cloud: No
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
boxd: Per second
BoxLite Cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
GPU
boxd: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
BoxLite Cloud: No
Pause and resume
boxd:
BoxLite Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
BoxLite Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $30.

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