BoxLite Cloud vs Freestyle VMs
BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs.
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BoxLite Cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxLite Cloud
Freestyle VMs
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Largest sandbox
- BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- Isolation
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- Snapshots
- BoxLite Cloud: No
- Freestyle VMs:
- SDKs
- BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxLite Clouddocs
Freestyle VMsfreestyle
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Billing
- BoxLite Cloud: Per second
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- GPU
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxLite Cloud: No
- Freestyle VMs:
- Pause and resume
- BoxLite Cloud:
- Freestyle VMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Integrations
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxLite Cloud
Freestyle VMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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.
Freestyle VMs fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.132 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
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