BoxLite Cloud vs CoreWeave Sandboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
CoreWeave Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
CoreWeave Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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