boxd vs Sandbox as a Service
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- Max session
- Not listed
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxd
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- boxd: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- boxd: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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