boxes.dev vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs
boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs.
Updated
boxes.dev
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
- Max session
- Not listed
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxes.dev
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- vCPU, per hour
- boxes.dev: $0.1875
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxes.dev: Included
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Billing
- boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxes.dev: $0.1875
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxes.dev: Included
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- boxes.dev: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Free tier
- boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- boxes.dev: $19 / month
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Billing
- boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- boxes.dev: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxes.dev: Up to 10
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- boxes.dev: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boxes.dev: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boxes.dev:
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Pause and resume
- boxes.dev:
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- boxes.dev: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Integrations
- boxes.dev: Claude Code
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Trust
- License
- boxes.dev: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxes.dev: Teams plan
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxes.dev
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxes.dev: $0.188
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxes.dev: $0.375
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxes.dev: $0.750
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boxes.dev fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.078 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 32 GiB.
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