BoxLite Cloud vs Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Hyperbrowser Sandboxes costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Hyperbrowser Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Full VM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.150
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.300

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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 $5.

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need SOC 2.

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