BoxLite Cloud vs Sandock

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Sandock runs containers and limits a session to 24 hours.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Sandock

Isolation
Container
Free tier
None
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Sandock
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Sandock: None
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Sandock: $5 / month
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Sandock: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sandock: 16 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Sandock: Up to 150
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Sandock: Container
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Sandock: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Sandock: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Sandock: Not listed
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Sandock: Not listed
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Sandock: None
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Sandock: $5 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Sandock: Not listed

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Sandock: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Sandock: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sandock: 16 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Sandock: Up to 150

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Sandock: Container
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Sandock: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Sandock: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Sandock:

Developer

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

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Sandock: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Sandock: Private / VPC deployment on Enterprise

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Sandock
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Sandock: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Sandock: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Sandock: Not listed

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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 to start without paying.

Sandock fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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