boxes.dev vs MIOSA

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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boxes.dev

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

MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

boxes.dev
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
MIOSA: $0.01458
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
MIOSA: Per second
Idle stop
boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
MIOSA: Up to 250
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
MIOSA: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
MIOSA: Up to 250

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Teams plan
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
MIOSA: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
MIOSA: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
MIOSA: $0.298

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.

MIOSA fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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