boxes.dev vs Tenki Sandbox

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Tenki Sandbox costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Tenki Sandbox runs full VMs.

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boxes.dev

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

Tenki Sandbox

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Tenki Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Tenki Sandbox: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Tenki Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: MCP

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Tenki Sandbox fits when

  • You use 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.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

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