BoxLite Cloud vs Railway Sandboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Railway Sandboxes:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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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 lower list price: $0.158 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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