boxes.dev vs Upstash Box

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Upstash Box runs containers.

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boxes.dev

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

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Upstash Box: $0.10
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Upstash Box: $0.400

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Upstash Box fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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