boxd vs Qiniu Cloud Sandbox

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. Qiniu Cloud Sandbox limits a session to 1 hour.

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boxd

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

Qiniu Cloud Sandbox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
1 hour

What is different

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

boxd
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Free
Max session
boxd: No limit
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: 1 hour
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Free
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
boxd: Per second
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxd: No limit
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: 1 hour
Idle stop
boxd: After 240 minutes
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Pause and resume
boxd:
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Go
Integrations
boxd: Claude Code, MCP
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • A session must run longer than 1 hour.
  • You use Claude Code or MCP.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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