boxd vs Watasu

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. Watasu limits a session to 24 hours.

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boxd

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

Watasu

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

boxd
Watasu
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Watasu: Free Basic plan
Max session
boxd: No limit
Watasu: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Watasu: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Watasu: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Watasu: Not listed
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Watasu: Free Basic plan
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Watasu: Not listed
Billing
boxd: Per second
Watasu: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxd: No limit
Watasu: 24 hours
Idle stop
boxd: After 240 minutes
Watasu: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Watasu: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Watasu: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Watasu: Not listed
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
Watasu:
Pause and resume
boxd:
Watasu:

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Watasu
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Watasu: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Watasu: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Watasu: Not listed

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You use Claude Code or MCP.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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