boxd vs Railway Sandboxes

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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boxd

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

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxd
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
Railway Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boxd:
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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