boxes.dev vs Solari

boxes.dev costs $0.15 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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boxes.dev

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

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Solari
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.15
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Solari: $0.0165
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Solari: Per second
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 20
Solari: Up to 10
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.15
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 20
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Solari:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Teams plan
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.150
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.300
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.600
Solari: $0.342

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.

Solari fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.171 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need HIPAA.

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