Pricing.
Credit-based. RAM bills on what is in use and disk on what you have written to, not on what you provisioned. Start with €30 of free credits. Custom deals for bigger machines or self-host.
Pay as you go
€30 of credits to start. Then pay only for what your machines use.
- ✓50 machines included, raiseable on request
- ✓2 vCPU · 8 GiB RAM · 100 GiB disk per machine
- ✓Fork, snapshots, and checkpoints
- ✓Suspend, resume, and hibernate
- ✓HTTPS, proxies, and custom domains
- ✓VM sharing and VM-to-VM networking
- ✓SSH from any device
- ✓Tailscale, Slack, Linear and more integrations
- ✓Disaster recovery built in
- ✓and much more: see docs.boxd.sh
Custom
Bigger machines, volume pricing, or boxd on your own hardware. For companies of any size.
- ✓Everything in Pay as you go
- ✓Bigger machines and higher quotas
- ✓Volume pricing
- ✓Self-host on your own hardware or BYOC
- ✓EU data residency
- ✓SSO + audit logs
- ✓Dedicated support
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Rate card
Billed on what your machine actually holds.
Most platforms bill what you reserve. boxd meters the memory in use and the disk you have written to, every second.
ONE MACHINE, RUNNING
≈ €0.13 / hour
vCPU
2 of 2
€0.098
€0.049 / vCPU-hour, on the machine's size, only while it runs.
RAM
2 of 8 GiB
€0.03
€0.015 / GiB-hour in use, not the 8 GiB provisioned.
Disk
20 of 100 GiB
€0.002
€0.0001 / GiB-hour written to, not the 100 GiB provisioned.
Pick a shape, then drag RAM and disk to your machine. Track: provisioned. Fill: billed. 2 vCPU · 8 GiB is the default.
SAME MACHINE, OVER TIME
How a machine spends a typical day in each use, and what a month of it costs. Pick one for the split.
- running
- standby
- hibernated
A workday running, hibernated overnight.
- 8 h a day running
- €31.63
- 243 h · €0.13 / h
- 16 h a day hibernated
- €0.97
- 487 h · €0.002 / h
Typical days are our assumptions, not your bill: your machine is metered every second.
Prices exclude VAT. Bigger machines or volume? Contact us for custom pricing.
Start with €30 freePricing FAQ
- How does billing work?
- Credit-based. You buy credits and your organization's machines draw them down at the rate card: €0.049 per vCPU-hour, €0.015 per GiB-hour of RAM, and €0.0001 per GiB-hour of disk. RAM bills on memory in use and disk on what you have written to, not on the provisioned size. A default machine (2 vCPU / 8 GiB) is about €0.22 per hour at full memory while it runs, and about €0.13 holding 2 GiB with 20 GiB written to disk. There is no monthly plan and no per-seat fee.
- Do you bill on reserved or actual memory and disk?
- Actual, for both. RAM bills on the memory a machine actually has resident, sampled every second, while it is running or in standby, not on the 8 GiB it was provisioned with. Disk bills on the disk you have written to, in every state, not on the 100 GiB provisioned: a machine that has written 20 GiB pays for 20 GiB. vCPU is the one component billed on the machine's size: its full vCPU count while it runs, nothing in standby, hibernated or stopped.
- What do I get for free?
- €30 of credits when you add a payment method. Nothing is charged when you add the card; it is how we keep fraudsters off real machines. Once those credits run out, auto top-up adds €20 at a time from that card so your machines keep running. You can change the amount or switch it off under Billing.
- Do I pay while a machine is hibernated?
- Only for disk, and only for the space you have written to, not the 100 GiB provisioned. A machine hibernates automatically when its network activity stops: memory is written to disk and resumes in sub-millisecond when traffic arrives. There is also an optional auto-suspend state, standby, that keeps memory warm for instant resume; a machine in standby pays for RAM and disk. vCPU is billed only while a machine is actually running.
- How do organizations fit in?
- Every account is an organization. Invite your team, share machines, and draw from one credit balance. Usage across all members bills to the organization. Each organization starts with a quota of 50 machines; email contact@boxd.sh to raise it or to get larger shapes than the default 2 vCPU / 8 GiB.
- What if I want to run boxd myself?
- Self-host it: a single Rust binary you run in your own VPC, datacenter, or country. No Kubernetes, no external Postgres, no Redis. EU data residency, SSO + audit logs, annual license, dedicated support. It works for a two-person startup as well as for a bank's DORA / NIS2 review.