boxd vs Brimble Sandboxes

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours.

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boxd

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 credit with a payment method
Max session
No limit

Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

What is different

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

boxd
Brimble Sandboxes
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Max session
boxd: No limit
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Integrations
boxd: Claude Code, MCP
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxd: No limit
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Idle stop
boxd: After 240 minutes
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
Brimble Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boxd:
Brimble Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Integrations
boxd: Claude Code, MCP
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Brimble Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • A session must run longer than 6 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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