boxd vs Perplexity Sandbox
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. Perplexity Sandbox runs containers.
Updated
boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- Max session
- No limit
Perplexity Sandbox
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
2 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxd
Perplexity Sandbox
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Perplexity Sandbox: Container
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
boxdboxd
Perplexity Sandboxdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: No limit
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- Idle stop
- boxd: After 240 minutes
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Perplexity Sandbox: Container
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code, MCP
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
Perplexity Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
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 use Claude Code or MCP.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
More comparisons
Agent Sandbox vs boxd- Agent Sandbox vs Perplexity Sandbox
Agent37 Cloud vs boxd- Agent37 Cloud vs Perplexity Sandbox
AgentBay vs boxd- AgentBay vs Perplexity Sandbox
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs boxd
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Perplexity Sandbox