BoxLite Cloud vs Cloudflare Sandbox

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Cloudflare Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Cloudflare Sandbox:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Cloudflare Sandbox:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Cloudflare Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want to start without paying.

Cloudflare Sandbox fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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