BoxLite Cloud vs Brimble Sandboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Brimble Sandboxes
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Brimble Sandboxes:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Brimble Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Brimble Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Brimble Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You need snapshots.

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