boxd vs Sendblue Sandboxes

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

Updated

boxd

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 credit with a payment method
Max session
No limit

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxd
Sendblue Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Billing
boxd: Per second
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Idle stop
boxd: After 240 minutes
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Pause and resume
boxd:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
boxd: Per second
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxd: No limit
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
boxd: After 240 minutes
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
boxd:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
boxd: Claude Code, MCP
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Sendblue Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use Claude Code or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.330 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

Sendblue Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $30.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related