boxd vs Shellbox
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. Shellbox 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
Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxd
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Idle stop
- boxd: After 240 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code, MCP
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: No limit
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- boxd: After 240 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code, MCP
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- Shellbox: $0.040
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boxd fits when
- You use MCP.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need GDPR.
Shellbox fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 32 GiB.
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