BoxLite Cloud vs Tensorlake Sandboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Tensorlake Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, $0 forever
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Tensorlake Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Tensorlake Sandboxes:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Tensorlake Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Tensorlake Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when

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

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