boxes.dev vs Buddy Sandboxes

boxes.dev costs $0.15 per vCPU-hour and Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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boxes.dev

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

Buddy Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$1 of usage credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Buddy Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.15
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.15
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 20
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Buddy Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Buddy Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Buddy Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.150
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.300
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.600
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173

Compute only, at list rates.

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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.

Buddy Sandboxes fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.086 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.

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