boxd vs Everstack

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Everstack costs $0.0666 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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boxd

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

Everstack

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxd
Everstack
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Everstack: $0.0666
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Everstack: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Everstack: Free
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Everstack: $5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Everstack: $20 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
Everstack: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Everstack: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Everstack: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Everstack: $0.0666
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Everstack: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Everstack: Free
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Everstack: $5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Everstack: $20 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
Everstack: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxd: No limit
Everstack: Not listed
Idle stop
boxd: After 240 minutes
Everstack: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Everstack: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Everstack: Up to 50

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Everstack: Not listed
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Everstack: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
Everstack:
Pause and resume
boxd:
Everstack:

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Everstack: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
boxd: Claude Code, MCP
Everstack: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Everstack: Apache-2.0
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Everstack: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Everstack
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Everstack: $0.067
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Everstack: $0.133
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Everstack: $0.266

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

Everstack fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.133 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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