boxes.dev vs Sendblue Sandboxes

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

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boxes.dev

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

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Sendblue Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Idle stop
boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Teams plan
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Sendblue Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Sendblue Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.330 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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