BoxLite Cloud vs exe.dev

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. exe.dev runs full VMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

exe.dev

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
exe.dev
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
exe.dev: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
exe.dev: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
exe.dev: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
exe.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
exe.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
exe.dev: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
exe.dev: Full VM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
exe.dev: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
exe.dev: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
exe.dev: Not listed
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code
exe.dev: Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
exe.dev: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
exe.dev: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
exe.dev
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
exe.dev: $0.053
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
exe.dev: $0.105
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
exe.dev: $0.210

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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 need pause and resume.

exe.dev fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.105 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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