boxd vs RemoteHost
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours.
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boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- Max session
- Not listed
RemoteHost
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial
- Max session
- 72 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxd
RemoteHost
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- RemoteHost: Included
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- RemoteHost: Free
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
boxdboxd
RemoteHostremotehost
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- RemoteHost: Included
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- RemoteHost: Free
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: Not listed
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Idle stop
- boxd: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: Not listed
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- RemoteHost:
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- RemoteHost:
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Integrations
- boxd: Not listed
- RemoteHost: MCP
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
RemoteHost
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- RemoteHost: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boxd fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
RemoteHost fits when
- You use MCP.
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