boxes.dev vs Modal

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs 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

Modal

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$30 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Modal
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Modal: $0.070956
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Modal: $0.024012
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Modal: $30 credit every month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Modal: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Modal: Per second

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Modal: $0.070956
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Modal: $0.024012
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Modal: Not listed
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Modal: $30 credit every month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Modal: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Modal: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Modal: 24 hours
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Modal: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Modal: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Modal: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Modal: gVisor
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Modal:
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Modal:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Modal: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Modal: Claude Agent SDK

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Modal: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Modal: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Modal
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Modal: $0.119
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Modal: $0.238
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Modal: $0.476

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.

Modal fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.238 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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