boxes.dev vs microsandbox cloud

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.

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boxes.dev

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

microsandbox cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
microsandbox cloud
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
microsandbox cloud: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
microsandbox cloud: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
microsandbox cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: No
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
microsandbox cloud:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
microsandbox cloud: No

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
microsandbox cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
microsandbox cloud: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
microsandbox cloud: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
microsandbox cloud: $0.330

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.

microsandbox cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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