boxes.dev vs Sandbox0

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Sandbox0 runs gVisor 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

Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Sandbox0
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Sandbox0: $0.015
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Sandbox0: Memory only
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Sandbox0: Up to 20

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sandbox0: Free
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Sandbox0: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Sandbox0: Memory only

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sandbox0: No limit
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Sandbox0: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sandbox0: gVisor
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Sandbox0:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Sandbox0:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Sandbox0
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Sandbox0: $0.030
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Sandbox0: $0.060
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Sandbox0: $0.120

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Sandbox0 fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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