BoxLite Cloud vs Islo Sandboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Islo Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Islo Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Islo Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Starting credit, no card required
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Islo Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Islo Sandboxes:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Islo Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Islo Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Islo Sandboxes:

Developer

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

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Agent computers run in your VPC.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Islo Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Islo Sandboxes: $0.150
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Islo Sandboxes: $0.300
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Islo Sandboxes: $0.600

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Which 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 want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Islo Sandboxes fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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