BoxLite Cloud vs Dedalus Machines

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Dedalus Machines costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Dedalus Machines runs full VMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Dedalus Machines

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$20 one-time sign-up credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Dedalus Machines
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Dedalus Machines: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Dedalus Machines: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Dedalus Machines: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Dedalus Machines: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Dedalus Machines:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Dedalus Machines
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Dedalus Machines: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Dedalus Machines: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Dedalus Machines: $0.298

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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 each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $20.

Dedalus Machines fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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