boxes.dev vs Sailboxes

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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boxes.dev

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

Sailboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Sailboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Sailboxes: $0.008
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Sailboxes: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Sailboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sailboxes: No limit
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Sailboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Sailboxes: $0.031
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Sailboxes: $0.062
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Sailboxes: $0.124

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Sailboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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