boxes.dev vs tama

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.

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boxes.dev

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

tama

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
tama
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
tama: $0.0055
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
tama: Per second

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
tama: $0.0055
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
tama: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
tama: Not listed
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
tama: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
tama: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
tama: Full VM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
tama:
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
tama:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
tama:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
tama: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
tama: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
tama
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
tama: $0.023
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
tama: $0.045
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
tama: $0.091

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.

tama fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.045 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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