boxd vs CoreWeave Sandboxes

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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boxd

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

What is different

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

boxd
CoreWeave Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
boxd: Per second
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
CoreWeave Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.

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