boxd vs CreateOS Sandbox

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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boxd

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

CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boxd
CreateOS Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
boxd: Per second
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxd: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Snapshots
boxd:
CreateOS Sandbox:
Pause and resume
boxd:
CreateOS Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
CreateOS Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

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