Launched this week
box
Simple computers for agent w/ full VMs
379 followers
Simple computers for agent w/ full VMs
379 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.
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Congrats on the launch!
As agents move into enterprise workflows, how are you thinking about secure access to private networks, internal systems, identity, and policy, not just the execution environment itself?
Full VM per agent is smart approach. Isolation at that level removes a lot of headaches with shared state. Whats the cold start time like when spinning up a new box?
Brandon's "procurement cycles don't care how fast your model iterates" line hit hard — that's WinBidIQ's whole world, just for federal contracts instead of compute. Skipping procurement is the pitch here, but does any customer ever need a security review anyway before spinning up VMs with admin rights?
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.
box new giving you a real ubuntu box in 2s is the part i like. the thing i actually want this for is handing an agent a throwaway machine so it can go wild without touching my real setup. does the vm tear itself down after, or do i manage cleanup myself?
Developer infrastructure usually wins when it removes complexity rather than adding capabilities.
Curious—what ends up being the biggest reason teams stick with box after the initial setup?