boxes.dev vs BoxLite Cloud

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs.

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boxes.dev

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Max session
Not listed

BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
BoxLite Cloud
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
BoxLite Cloud: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
BoxLite Cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
BoxLite Cloud: No
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
BoxLite Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
BoxLite Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You need snapshots.

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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