boxes.dev vs Celesto Cloud

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. Celesto 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

Celesto Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Celesto Cloud
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Celesto Cloud: Included
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Free
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Celesto Cloud:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Celesto Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Celesto Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Celesto Cloud: $0.060

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Celesto Cloud fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
  • You use MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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