BoxLite Cloud vs Containarium Cloud

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Containarium Cloud runs containers.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Containarium Cloud
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Containarium Cloud: Included
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Containarium Cloud: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Containarium Cloud: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Containarium Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Containarium Cloud: $0.080

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

Containarium Cloud fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need ISO 27001.

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