BoxLite Cloud vs tama

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

tama

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
tama
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
tama: $0.0055
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
tama: Full VM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
tama:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
tama: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
tama: $0.0055
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
tama: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
tama: Not listed
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
tama: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
tama: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
tama: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
tama: Full VM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
tama:
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
tama:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
tama:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
tama: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code
tama: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
tama: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
tama: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
tama
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
tama: $0.023
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
tama: $0.045
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
tama: $0.091

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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.

tama fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.045 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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