boxes.dev vs CoreWeave Sandboxes

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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boxes.dev

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

What is different

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

boxes.dev
CoreWeave Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
CoreWeave Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You need pause and resume.

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.341 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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