BoxLite Cloud vs Celesto Cloud

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Celesto Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Celesto Cloud
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Celesto Cloud: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Free
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Celesto Cloud:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Celesto Cloud: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Free
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Celesto Cloud:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Celesto Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Celesto Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Celesto Cloud: $0.060

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $5.

Celesto Cloud fits when

  • You use MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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