BoxLite Cloud vs Together Sandbox

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Together Sandbox costs $0.0446 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Together Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Together Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Together Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Together Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Together Sandbox:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Together Sandbox: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Together Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Together Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Together Sandbox:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Together Sandbox:

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Together Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Together Sandbox: $0.074
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Together Sandbox: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Together Sandbox: $0.298

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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 use Claude Code.

Together Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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