boxd vs Sailboxes

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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boxd

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

Sailboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boxd
Sailboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Sailboxes: Full VM
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boxd: Per second
Sailboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
Sailboxes: No limit
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Sailboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Sailboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Sailboxes: $0.031
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Sailboxes: $0.062
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Sailboxes: $0.124

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the larger free credit: $30 against $5.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Sailboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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