boxd vs ix
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and ix costs $0.0288 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. ix runs full VMs.
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boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxd
ix
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- ix: $0.0288
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- ix: $0.0108
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- ix: $0.101 per GiB-month stored
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- ix: Active CPU time only
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- ix: Full VM
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- ix: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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ixix
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- ix: $0.0288
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- ix: $0.0108
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- ix: $0.101 per GiB-month stored
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- ix: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- ix: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- ix: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: Not listed
- ix: Not listed
- Idle stop
- boxd: Not listed
- ix: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: Not listed
- ix: 100 vCPU · 256 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- ix: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- ix: Full VM
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- ix: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- ix:
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- ix: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- ix: Python, TypeScript, Rust
- Integrations
- boxd: Not listed
- ix: MCP
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- ix: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- ix: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
ix
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- ix: $0.050
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- ix: $0.101
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- ix: $0.202
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boxd fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
ix fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.101 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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