exe.dev vs Phonebox

exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. exe.dev runs full VMs. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.

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exe.dev

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session
Not listed

Phonebox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$2 starter credit, one time, no card
Max session
3 hours

What is different

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

exe.dev
Phonebox
Free tier
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from
exe.dev: $15 / month
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Integrations
exe.dev: Claude Code, MCP
Phonebox: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
exe.dev: $0.0525
Phonebox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
exe.dev: Included
Phonebox: Not listed
Storage
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Phonebox: Not listed
Free tier
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from
exe.dev: $15 / month
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Billing
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Phonebox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
exe.dev: Not listed
Phonebox: 3 hours
Idle stop
exe.dev: Not listed
Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
exe.dev: Not listed
Phonebox: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
exe.dev: Full VM
Phonebox: Not listed
GPU
exe.dev: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
Snapshots
exe.dev: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
Pause and resume
exe.dev: Not listed
Phonebox:

Developer

SDKs
exe.dev: Not listed
Phonebox: TypeScript
Integrations
exe.dev: Claude Code, MCP
Phonebox: MCP

Trust

License
exe.dev: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
BYOC
exe.dev: Enterprise plan
Phonebox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

exe.dev
Phonebox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
exe.dev: $0.053
Phonebox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
exe.dev: $0.105
Phonebox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
exe.dev: $0.210
Phonebox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

exe.dev fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need HIPAA.

Phonebox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You need pause and resume.

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