BoxLite Cloud vs Sandbox as a Service
BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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BoxLite Cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxLite Cloud
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Free tier
- BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Billing
- BoxLite Cloud: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Isolation
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Snapshots
- BoxLite Cloud: No
- Sandbox as a Service:
- SDKs
- BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxLite Clouddocs
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- BoxLite Cloud: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxLite Cloud: No
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- BoxLite Cloud:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxLite Cloud
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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.
- You need pause and resume.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
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