boxes.dev vs Phonebox

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.

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boxes.dev

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

Phonebox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$2 starter credit, one time, no card
Max session
3 hours

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Phonebox
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Phonebox: Up to 5
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Phonebox: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Phonebox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Phonebox: Not listed
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Phonebox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Phonebox: 3 hours
Idle stop
boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Phonebox: Up to 5

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Phonebox: TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Phonebox: MCP

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Teams plan
Phonebox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Phonebox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Phonebox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Phonebox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Phonebox: 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 the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Phonebox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use MCP.

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