BoxLite Cloud vs Declaw

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Declaw

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
72 hours

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Declaw
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Declaw: $0.0162
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Declaw: Up to 500
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Declaw:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Declaw: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Declaw: $0.0162
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Declaw: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Declaw: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Declaw: 72 hours
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Declaw: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Declaw: Up to 500

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Declaw: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Declaw: Deploy in your VPC. Book a call.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Declaw
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Declaw: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Declaw: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Declaw: $0.331

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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 $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Declaw fits when

  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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