boxes.dev vs xShellz Agent Shell

boxes.dev costs $0.15 per vCPU-hour. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor 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

xShellz Agent Shell

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boxes.dev
xShellz Agent Shell
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 20
xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.15
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
xShellz Agent Shell: Included
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
Idle stop
boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 20
xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
xShellz Agent Shell:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Teams plan
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
xShellz Agent Shell
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.150
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.300
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.600
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 4 GiB.

xShellz Agent Shell fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You need GDPR.

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