boxes.dev vs Brimble Sandboxes

boxes.dev costs $0.15 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours.

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boxes.dev

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

Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Brimble Sandboxes
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 20
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.15
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Idle stop
boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 20
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Brimble Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Brimble Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Teams plan
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Brimble Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.150
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.300
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.600
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You use MCP.

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