boxes.dev vs CreateOS Sandbox

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs 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

CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boxes.dev
CreateOS Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
CreateOS Sandbox:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
CreateOS Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
CreateOS Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You use Claude Code.

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.119 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.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

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