boxes.dev vs Cloudflare Sandbox

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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boxes.dev

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

Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Cloudflare Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Cloudflare Sandbox:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Cloudflare Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You want to start without paying.
  • You need pause and resume.

Cloudflare Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.180 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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