BoxLite Cloud vs Novita Sandbox

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Novita Sandbox costs $0.03528 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Novita Sandbox limits a session to 24 hours.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Novita Sandbox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$100 promotional credit
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Novita Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Novita Sandbox: Up to 100
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Novita Sandbox:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Novita Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Novita Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Novita Sandbox:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Novita Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code
Novita Sandbox: Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Novita Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Novita Sandbox: $0.058
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Novita Sandbox: $0.117
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Novita Sandbox: $0.233

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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.

Novita Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.117 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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