boxd vs Cloudflare Sandbox

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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boxd

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

Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxd
Cloudflare Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
Cloudflare Sandbox:
Pause and resume
boxd:
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Cloudflare Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360

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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 $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You need pause and resume.

Cloudflare Sandbox fits when

  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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