boxd vs Modal
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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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
Modal
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Modal: $0.024012
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Modal: gVisor
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: Not listed
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- boxd: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- Modal: $0.476
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 want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.
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