BoxLite Cloud vs Solari

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Solari
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Solari: Up to 10
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Solari:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Solari:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Solari: $0.342

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.171 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $3.

Solari fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need HIPAA.

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