BoxLite Cloud vs Sendblue Sandboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

Updated Oct 15, 2026

BoxLite Cloud

Hosted microVM boxes for AI agents, with an SDK.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: $100 credit
Max session: Not listed

Visit site BoxLite Cloud profile

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolated cloud Linux machines that AI agents control over an HTTP API.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Sendblue Sandboxes profile

What is different

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BoxLite Cloud

Sendblue Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504; Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour: BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144; Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Free tier: BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit; Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Billing: BoxLite Cloud: Per second; Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Idle stop: BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes; Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox: BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB; Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000; Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5
Isolation: BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM; Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Pause and resume: BoxLite Cloud:; Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

BoxLite Clouddocs.boxlite.ai/cloud/pricingdocs.boxlite.ai

Sendblue Sandboxessendblue.com/sandboxessendblue.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504; Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour: BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144; Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage: BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour; Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier: BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit; Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from: BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go; Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing: BoxLite Cloud: Per second; Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: BoxLite Cloud: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop: BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes; Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox: BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB; Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000; Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation: BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM; Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
GPU: BoxLite Cloud: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots: BoxLite Cloud: No; Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume: BoxLite Cloud:; Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Developer

SDKs: BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust; Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations: BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP; Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License: BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0; Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: BoxLite Cloud: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

BoxLite Cloud

Sendblue Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: BoxLite Cloud: $0.079; Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: BoxLite Cloud: $0.158; Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: BoxLite Cloud: $0.317; Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 use Claude Code or MCP.
You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.330 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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