boxes.dev vs Runloop

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. Runloop runs microVMs.

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boxes.dev

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

Runloop

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$50 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Runloop
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Runloop: $0.108
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Runloop: $0.0252
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Runloop: $50 credit
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Runloop: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Runloop: Per second

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Runloop: $0.108
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Runloop: $0.0252
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Runloop: $50 credit
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Runloop: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Runloop: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Runloop: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Runloop: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Runloop: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Runloop: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Runloop
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Runloop: $0.158
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Runloop: $0.317
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Runloop: $0.634

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Runloop fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.317 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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