boxes.dev vs Railway Sandboxes

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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boxes.dev

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

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Railway Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.375 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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