BoxLite Cloud vs Oblien Workspace

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Oblien Workspace
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Oblien Workspace:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: No
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Oblien Workspace:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Oblien Workspace:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Oblien Workspace
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Oblien Workspace: $0.184

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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.

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.092 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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