boxd vs microsandbox cloud
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.
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boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- Max session
- Not listed
microsandbox cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxd
microsandbox cloud
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- microsandbox cloud: No
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Idle stop
- boxd: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: No
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- microsandbox cloud:
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- microsandbox cloud: No
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
microsandbox cloud
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- microsandbox cloud: $0.082
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- microsandbox cloud: $0.165
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- microsandbox cloud: $0.330
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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.
- You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
microsandbox cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
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