boxes.dev vs Lizard Sandboxes

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes 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

Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Lizard Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Lizard Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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