BoxLite Cloud vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs
BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs.
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BoxLite Cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxLite Cloud
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Idle stop
- BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Isolation
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Snapshots
- BoxLite Cloud: No
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxLite Clouddocs
DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Free tier
- BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Billing
- BoxLite Cloud: Per second
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxLite Cloud: No
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Pause and resume
- BoxLite Cloud:
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Integrations
- BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Trust
- License
- BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxLite Cloud
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 use Claude Code or MCP.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.078 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 32 GiB.
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