boxes.dev vs Superserve

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Superserve 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

Superserve

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Superserve
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Superserve: $0.0162
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Superserve: Per second

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Superserve: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Superserve: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Superserve: No limit
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Superserve: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Superserve: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Superserve:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Superserve:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Superserve: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Superserve:

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Superserve
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Superserve: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Superserve: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Superserve: $0.331

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Superserve fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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