Launching today
box
Simple computers for agent w/ full VMs
267 followers
Simple computers for agent w/ full VMs
267 followers
Box offers the simplest, cheapest cloud computers for agents, thought for builders of agentic platforms & software factories. Run 'box new' in your terminal, in 2s get a beefy ubuntu VM, with admin rights, a desktop, ssh access. At $0.036/hr it is 10x less expensive than the likes of E2B, Daytona, Modal, so you can run more agents, or run them longer. Run up to 1000 concurrent boxes fully self-served, or ask us for more, with same-day support from the founders.
the pricing alone makes me want to try this out, but one thing that would help a lot is built-in snapshot support so we can pause a box mid task and resume it later without burning compute. would make longer agent workflows way more practical
honestly the pricing is what caught my eye, super competitive. one thing that would help me though is a built in way to snapshot a box and fork it, like a template system, so i can spin up a preconfigured env instead of setting up every vm from scratch each time. would save a ton of time
ran box new and had an ubuntu vm up in a couple seconds, which genuinely surprised me. the price point makes it easy to justify spinning up extra agents without watching the meter.
I'm a box user, been using it for (I think) a few weeks now. It's insanely fast, cheap (actually ridiculous), and good. Try them out! And congrats on the launch guys
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@kartikskabadi Thank you so much Kartik! It's a pleasure to help you
too simple to use and spin up - been working on integrating this in my platform.
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@arth_tyagi Hope it's going well! Lmk if I can help in any way :)
I’ve been using box for a few weeks now. By far the best provider and it’s not even close. Great prices, super fast and the founder proactively reached out when they saw I had an issue. My preferred sandbox provider! 📦📦
Built for Devs
Interesting. I just implemented this use case and landed on E2B. I'm running a platform that does agent evaluations of dev tools and the agents need sandbox environments to build in to validate the dev tool. How do you differ from E2B? I just built this feature a couple days ago so its quite new!