boxd vs Celesto Cloud

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs.

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boxd

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

Celesto Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxd
Celesto Cloud
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Celesto Cloud: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Free
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Billing
boxd: Per second
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Celesto Cloud: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Free
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
boxd: Per second
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
Celesto Cloud:
Pause and resume
boxd:
Celesto Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Celesto Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Celesto Cloud: $0.060

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You want the larger free credit: $30 against $5.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Celesto Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
  • You use MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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