BoxLite Cloud vs xShellz Agent Shell

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor and has no session limit.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

xShellz Agent Shell

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
xShellz Agent Shell
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
xShellz Agent Shell: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
xShellz Agent Shell: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
xShellz Agent Shell:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
xShellz Agent Shell
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
xShellz Agent Shell: 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 each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 4 GiB.

xShellz Agent Shell fits when

  • You need GDPR.

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