BoxLite Cloud vs Sailboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Sailboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Sailboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Sailboxes: Full VM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Sailboxes:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Sailboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Sailboxes: No limit
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Sailboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sailboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Sailboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Sailboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Sailboxes: $0.031
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Sailboxes: $0.062
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Sailboxes: $0.124

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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.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $5.

Sailboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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