boxes.dev vs StateSet Sandbox

boxes.dev costs $0.15 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor 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

StateSet Sandbox

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$25 trial credit, no card
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

boxes.dev
StateSet Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.15
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 20
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.15
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
StateSet Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 20
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Teams plan
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
StateSet Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.150
StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.300
StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.600
StateSet Sandbox: $0.028

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

StateSet Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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