boxd vs MIOSA

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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boxd

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

MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

boxd
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $500 / month
Max session
boxd: No limit
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
boxd: After 240 minutes
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
boxd: Claude Code, MCP
MIOSA: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
MIOSA: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxd: No limit
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
boxd: After 240 minutes
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
MIOSA: Up to 250

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
boxd: Claude Code, MCP
MIOSA: MCP

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
MIOSA: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
MIOSA: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
MIOSA: $0.298

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the larger free credit: $30 against $10.

MIOSA fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 32 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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