boxd vs Sandbox0

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.

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boxd

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

Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boxd
Sandbox0
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Sandbox0: Free
Billing
boxd: Per second
Sandbox0: Memory only
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Sandbox0: gVisor
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Sandbox0: Free
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Sandbox0: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
boxd: Per second
Sandbox0: Memory only

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
Sandbox0: No limit
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Sandbox0: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Sandbox0: gVisor
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
Sandbox0:
Pause and resume
boxd:
Sandbox0:

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Sandbox0: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Sandbox0
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Sandbox0: $0.030
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Sandbox0: $0.060
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Sandbox0: $0.120

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Sandbox0 fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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