BoxLite Cloud vs StateSet Sandbox

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor and limits a session to 24 hours.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

StateSet Sandbox

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$25 trial credit, no card
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
StateSet Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
StateSet Sandbox:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
StateSet Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
StateSet Sandbox:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
StateSet Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
StateSet Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
StateSet Sandbox: $0.028

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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 $25.

StateSet Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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