boxd vs Runtime
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- Max session
- No limit
Runtime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxd
Runtime
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Idle stop
- boxd: After 240 minutes
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code, MCP
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: No limit
- Runtime: No limit
- Idle stop
- boxd: After 240 minutes
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- Runtime: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- Runtime: No
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- Runtime:
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- Runtime:
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code, MCP
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- Runtime: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- Runtime: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
Runtime
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- Runtime: $0.040
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- Runtime: $0.080
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- Runtime: $0.160
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boxd fits when
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need GDPR.
Runtime fits when
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or LangChain.
- You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 32 GiB.
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