BoxLite Cloud vs Depot Agent Sandboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Depot Agent Sandboxes runs containers.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Depot Agent Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Depot Agent Sandboxes
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Depot Agent Sandboxes: $20 / month
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Depot Agent Sandboxes: $20 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Container
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Depot Agent Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Depot Agent Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed

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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.

Depot Agent Sandboxes fits when

  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

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