# boxes.dev

Official pricing: https://boxes.dev/  
Category: dev-env · Isolation: not published

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Starter marginal box-hours** (sizes): Starter-default 4 vCPU/8 GiB $0.75/h; Starter-4x16 4 vCPU/16 GiB $1.0425/h; Starter-8x16 8 vCPU/16 GiB $1.5/h; Starter-8x24 8 vCPU/24 GiB $1.7925/h; Starter-8x32 8 vCPU/32 GiB $2.085/h
- **Pro marginal box-hours** (sizes): Pro-default 4 vCPU/8 GiB $0.6/h; Pro-4x16 4 vCPU/16 GiB $0.834/h; Pro-8x16 8 vCPU/16 GiB $1.2/h; Pro-8x24 8 vCPU/24 GiB $1.434/h; Pro-8x32 8 vCPU/32 GiB $1.668/h

## Features

Yes: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, persistent disk, whole disk survives a stop, volumes, idle auto-stop, ≥24 h sessions, custom image (Docker or snapshot), start from your own snapshot, Docker inside, browser, preinstalled agents, SSH, HTTPS preview URLs, open internet, BYOC, SSO, wake on request, live fork (no pause), scheduled runs (cron), audit logs, spend limits, automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, agent harness API, inbound access rules, firewall inside (nftables), extra volumes, shared volumes

No: your own Docker/OCI image, desktop GUI, computer-use API, browser + desktop control, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, public IPv4, egress allowlist, static egress IP, self-hosting, open source, SOC 2, HIPAA, GPU, Windows, macOS, HTTP method/path egress rules, live resize, memory fork, EU data residency, MCP server, usage per sandbox (API), hosted agent API (their own agent), secret proxy, secret proxy for any API

Unknown: everything else. Evidence (source + quote) per feature: https://battleships.dev/data/providers/boxes-dev.json → feature_evidence

## Company

- Ownership: independent
- Stage: pre-seed [source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/boxesdev)
- Accelerators: Y Combinator Fall 2026 [source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/boxesdev)
- Total raised: $500,000 (estimated: YC's publicly stated standard per-company investment ('We invest $500,000 in each company') applied to a confirmed current-batch (F2026) YC company; no company-specific funding announcement or amount was found) [source](https://www.ycombinator.com/faq)
- Last round: pre-seed, $500,000, 2026, led by Y Combinator (estimated) [source](https://www.ycombinator.com/faq)
- Investors: Y Combinator
- Revenue: unknown

Confirmed the hint: YC directory company 'Boxes.dev' (Fall 2026, Active, https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/boxesdev) is the same company as boxes.dev — same domain, and the boxes.dev Show HN launch (June 2026) is posted by founders Nick Bushak and Drew Regitsky, matching the YC page's founders. Founders previously built Gem (a recruiting CRM, also YC-backed, S17 for Drew Regitsky). No funding beyond YC's own investment or any revenue/ARR figures were publicly disclosed as of 2026-09-30; very early-stage (2-person team, founded 2026).

## Caveats

- Default 4 vCPU/8 GiB 100 GBdisk; larger machines burn weighted box-hours. About 1.39/2.39/2.78 multipliers are approximate.
- Single paidseat does not satisfy 50 awake devboxes. Multiple seats must be assigned to real users; do not buy fake seats solely to bypass limits.
- Template boxes consume box-hours while awake but do not occupy devbox slots; Team Template source maintenance wakes bill admin, ordinary devbox maintenance-onlywakes free.
- Included box-hours are per user, overage draws shared team prepaid balance; unequal usage per person can leave some included hours unused.
- Sleeping devboxes free; snapshot storage andegress rates not separately itemized; 100 GiBegress not assumed free.
- Monthly price not fee-as-credit: 19 includes 40 hours,99 includes 250 hours.
- Isolation type not published: the site says only that a devbox is 'a real Linux environment, with its own dedicated vCPU and memory' (no VM/microVM/kernel claim), so it is left unset.
- Idle sleep timeout is per user (5/15/30/60 min, default 5, or a team default); longer timeouts burn more box-hours.
- Engineonly handlesoneperson plan limits; per personincluded hours andseat-scaledconcurrency notautomaticallypooled. Trialcannot bemapped to monthlyincludedUSD.

## How this provider charges


As of 2026-09-28. USD list prices. Plans and awake limits are PER PERSON, not whole organization. Models/subscriptions not resold. Show HN 2026-06-04 item 48399358.

## Regimes

| Regime | When it applies | How billed / numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter box-hours | Native product usage | $0.75/hour after 40 included hours per paiduser;19 USD/seat/month. | [Primary pricing](https://boxes.dev/) |
| Pro box-hours | Native product usage | $0.60/hour after 250 included hours per paiduser;99 USD/seat/month. | [Primary pricing](https://boxes.dev/) |
| Larger machines | Native product usage | 4 vCPU 16 GiB≈1.39 box-hours/h;8 vCPU 16 GiB 2;8 vCPU 24 GiB≈2.39;8 vCPU 32 GiB≈2.78. | [Primary pricing](https://boxes.dev/) |
| Sleeping | Native product usage | No box-hour charge; unlimited sleeping devboxes advertised. | [Primary pricing](https://boxes.dev/) |
| Trial | Account plan | $0/month; 10 box-hours/user total;2 awake devboxes plus Template;2 projects. | [Primary pricing](https://boxes.dev/) |
| Starter | Account plan | $19/month; Per user/paidseat:40 box-hours/month,4 awake plus Template;5 projects; extra$0.75/box-hour. | [Primary pricing](https://boxes.dev/) |
| Pro | Account plan | $99/month; Per user/paidseat:250 box-hours/month,10 awake plus Template;10 projects; extra$0.60/box-hour. | [Primary pricing](https://boxes.dev/) |
| Teams | Account plan | Unpublished / sales; Custom seats/hour pools, resources/limits and deployment; contact sales. | [Primary pricing](https://boxes.dev/) |

## Gotchas

- Default 4 vCPU/8 GiB 100 GBdisk; larger machines burn weighted box-hours. About 1.39/2.39/2.78 multipliers are approximate.
- Single paidseat does not satisfy 50 awake devboxes. Multiple seats must be assigned to real users; do not buy fake seats solely to bypass limits.
- Template boxes consume box-hours while awake but do not occupy devbox slots; Team Template source maintenance wakes bill admin, ordinary devbox maintenance-onlywakes free.
- Included box-hours are per user, overage draws shared team prepaid balance; unequal usage per person can leave some included hours unused.
- Sleeping devboxes free; snapshot storage andegress rates not separately itemized; 100 GiBegress not assumed free.
- Monthly price not fee-as-credit: 19 includes 40 hours,99 includes 250 hours.
- Exact hypervisor type not established by reviewed docs.

## Required worked example

4 vCPU / 8 GiB, 50 concurrent × 8 h/day × 22 days = **8,800 instance-hours**, 30% CPU, 50 GiB retained snapshots and 100 GiB egress.

A single self-serve seat cannot meet 50 concurrency. **Conditional 5-person Pro scenario**, each legitimately owns 10 boxes and consumes 1,760 hours/month: fee 5×99=$495; usage 5×(1,760−250)×.60=$4,530; known subtotal **$5,025**. This is not guaranteed organization-pooled billing or an Enterprise quote. Excludes extra Template hours, models, egress and separately unpublished snapshot terms. At 30% CPU wall-time price unchanged; full total unknown.

## Feature evidence

- https://boxes.dev/help/plans-and-box-hours
- https://boxes.dev/help/billing-and-usage
- https://boxes.dev/help/sleep-wake-recover
- https://boxes.dev/help/template-box-snapshots
- https://boxes.dev/llms.txt