boxes.dev vs Oblien Workspace

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs.

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boxes.dev

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

Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Oblien Workspace
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: No
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Oblien Workspace:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Oblien Workspace:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Oblien Workspace
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Oblien Workspace: $0.184

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.

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.092 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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