BoxLite Cloud vs Upstash Box

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Upstash Box runs containers.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Upstash Box: Container
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Upstash Box:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 lower list price: $0.158 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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