boxd vs Phonebox
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.
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boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- Max session
- No limit
Phonebox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Max session
- 3 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxd
Phonebox
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- boxd: No limit
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Idle stop
- boxd: After 240 minutes
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code, MCP
- Phonebox: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Phonebox: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: No limit
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Idle stop
- boxd: After 240 minutes
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- Phonebox: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Phonebox: Not listed
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- Phonebox:
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code, MCP
- Phonebox: MCP
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- Phonebox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
Phonebox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- Phonebox: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- Phonebox: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- Phonebox: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boxd fits when
- A session must run longer than 3 hours.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the larger free credit: $30 against $2.
- You need snapshots.
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