boxd vs Fly.io Sprites

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Fly.io Sprites costs $0.0385 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Fly.io Sprites runs microVMs.

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boxd

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

Fly.io Sprites

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 trial credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxd
Fly.io Sprites
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Fly.io Sprites: $0.0385
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Fly.io Sprites: $0.021875
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Fly.io Sprites: $0.000683 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Fly.io Sprites: $30 trial credit
Billing
boxd: Per second
Fly.io Sprites: Active CPU time only
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Fly.io Sprites: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Fly.io Sprites: $0.0385
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Fly.io Sprites: $0.021875
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Fly.io Sprites: $0.000683 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Fly.io Sprites: $30 trial credit
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Fly.io Sprites: Pay as you go
Billing
boxd: Per second
Fly.io Sprites: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Fly.io Sprites: MicroVM
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
Fly.io Sprites:
Pause and resume
boxd:
Fly.io Sprites:

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Fly.io Sprites: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Fly.io Sprites
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Fly.io Sprites: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Fly.io Sprites: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Fly.io Sprites: $0.329

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Fly.io Sprites fits when

  • You use MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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