boxes.dev vs Freestyle VMs

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

boxes.dev

Cloud computers for Claude Code and Codex.

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

Visit site boxes.dev profile

Freestyle VMs

Full Linux virtual machines for AI agents.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Free plan, $0 forever
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Freestyle VMs profile

What is different

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

Field

boxes.dev

Freestyle VMs

vCPU, per hour: boxes.dev: $0.1875; Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
RAM, per GiB-hour: boxes.dev: Included; Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Free tier: boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included; Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from: boxes.dev: $19 / month; Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Billing: boxes.dev: Bundled machine time; Freestyle VMs: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes: boxes.dev: Up to 10; Freestyle VMs: Up to 400

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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Freestyle VMsfreestyle.sh/pricingfreestyle.sh

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: boxes.dev: $0.1875; Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
RAM, per GiB-hour: boxes.dev: Included; Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Storage: boxes.dev: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
Free tier: boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included; Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from: boxes.dev: $19 / month; Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Billing: boxes.dev: Bundled machine time; Freestyle VMs: Per second

Limits

Max session: boxes.dev: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Idle stop: boxes.dev: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Largest sandbox: boxes.dev: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: boxes.dev: Up to 10; Freestyle VMs: Up to 400

Platform

Isolation: boxes.dev: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Full VM
GPU: boxes.dev: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Snapshots: boxes.dev:; Freestyle VMs:
Pause and resume: boxes.dev:; Freestyle VMs:

Developer

SDKs: boxes.dev: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Integrations: boxes.dev: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK

Trust

License: boxes.dev: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
BYOC: boxes.dev: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

boxes.dev

Freestyle VMs

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: boxes.dev: $0.188; Freestyle VMs: $0.066
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: boxes.dev: $0.375; Freestyle VMs: $0.132
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: boxes.dev: $0.750; Freestyle VMs: $0.264

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Freestyle VMs fits when

You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
You want the lower list price: $0.132 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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