BoxLite Cloud vs Namespace Devboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Namespace Devboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
30-day free trial
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Namespace Devboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Namespace Devboxes:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code
Namespace Devboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Namespace Devboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Namespace Devboxes: $0.240

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.

Namespace Devboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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