boxd vs EQVPS Sandboxes

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and EQVPS Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. EQVPS Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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boxd

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

EQVPS Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$1 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
720 hours

What is different

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

boxd
EQVPS Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
boxd: No limit
EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
boxd: After 240 minutes
EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
boxd: Claude Code, MCP
EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boxd: Per second
EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxd: No limit
EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
boxd: After 240 minutes
EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxd: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
boxd:
EQVPS Sandboxes:

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
EQVPS Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.066
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.132
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.264

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 720 hours.
  • You want the larger free credit: $30 against $1.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

EQVPS Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.132 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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