boxes.dev vs Shellbox
boxes.dev costs $0.15 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs 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
Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxes.dev
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- boxes.dev: $0.15
- Shellbox: $0.01
- Paid plan from
- boxes.dev: $19 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Idle stop
- boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxes.dev: Up to 20
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxes.dev: $0.15
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxes.dev: Included
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- boxes.dev: Not listed
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- boxes.dev: $19 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- boxes.dev: Not listed
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxes.dev: Up to 20
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- boxes.dev: Not listed
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boxes.dev: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boxes.dev:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- boxes.dev:
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- boxes.dev: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- boxes.dev: Claude Code
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- boxes.dev: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxes.dev: Teams plan
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxes.dev
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxes.dev: $0.150
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxes.dev: $0.300
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxes.dev: $0.600
- Shellbox: $0.040
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boxes.dev fits when
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Shellbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 32 GiB.
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