boxd vs Oblien Workspace

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs.

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boxd

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 credit with a payment method
Max session
Not listed

Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxd
Oblien Workspace
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Billing
boxd: Per second
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
boxd: Per second
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: No
Snapshots
boxd:
Oblien Workspace:
Pause and resume
boxd:
Oblien Workspace:

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Oblien Workspace
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Oblien Workspace: $0.184

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.092 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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