boxes.dev vs Perplexity Sandbox

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour. Perplexity Sandbox runs containers.

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boxes.dev

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

Perplexity Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

No published field differs between boxes.dev and Perplexity Sandbox.

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Container
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Teams plan
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Perplexity Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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