BoxLite Cloud vs Unikraft Cloud

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Unikraft Cloud runs Firecracker microVMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Unikraft Cloud

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Hobby plan, free forever
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Unikraft Cloud
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Unikraft Cloud: Hobby plan, free forever
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Unikraft Cloud: $39 / month
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Unikraft Cloud: Up to 24
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Unikraft Cloud: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Unikraft Cloud:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Unikraft Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Unikraft Cloud: Hobby plan, free forever
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Unikraft Cloud: $39 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Unikraft Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Unikraft Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

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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.

Unikraft Cloud fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.

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