boxd vs Lizard Sandboxes

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Lizard Sandboxes 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

Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boxd
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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