PRICING
Try your first project on welcome credit. Then add credit as you go, with no subscription, or take Starter for $40 of compute every month and a larger AI allowance.
$0 to get started
Explore the workspace and put your first cloud computer to work.
Credit is added when you sign up. It doesn’t renew.
$5 or more, one-time
Computer time for the agent you already use. No subscription.
Add credit in the app after you sign up. It pays for VM time, not AI.
$15.99 USD / month
For the first 30 members, locked while you stay subscribed.
Subscribe in the app after you sign up. Unused plan credit resets each month. Cancel anytime.
About 8 h a day
Starter’s $40 covers about 270 Large-VM hours a month.
$0
Connect Claude, Codex, Cursor or Claude Code over MCP. Your AI plan pays for the model, so your credit goes to VM time.
$0
Your agent’s VM stops after 30 minutes idle and keeps its files, so a forgotten VM doesn’t drain credit.
Unlimited
Ask your agent to save files to Assets. They stay when a VM is deleted, up to 5 GiB each.
Small
Clean a CSV, organize files, or run a Python script.
0.5 vCPU · 1 GiB RAM
About $0.05 / hour
Large
Automate a website, test a small app, or run a browser beside your code.
1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB RAM
About $0.15 / hour
XL and XXL
Android emulators, mobile app builds, bigger datasets, and several services at once.
4 vCPU · 8 GiB, or 4–8 vCPU · 16 GiB
About $0.40 or $0.80 / hour · Starter
Billed per second while a VM runs, with a one-minute minimum. Stopped VMs cost nothing.
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It’s a one-time credit for Small and Large VMs, added when you sign up. It’s valid for 14 days, one per person, and can’t pay the Starter subscription fee.
The first 30 Starter members keep $15.99 a month and $40 of monthly credit for as long as their subscription stays active. Cancel anytime and keep the plan until the end of the paid month.
Yes. Add any whole-dollar amount of credit from $5 to $500 in the app, with no subscription. It pays for VM time, never expires, and lets you run three VMs at once instead of two. It doesn’t raise the BoxCompute agent’s daily AI allowance: Starter or your own model key does, and an agent you connect over MCP uses your own AI plan.
A running VM uses credit by the second, including idle time, until it stops: about $0.05 an hour for Small and $0.15 for Large, with a one-minute minimum. Stopped VMs cost nothing. Starter’s $40 monthly credit is used first and resets each month. Credit you add, from $5 to $500 on any plan, is used last and never expires.
Your agent’s VM keeps its workspace files when it stops. For files you want to keep for good, ask the agent to save them to Assets, or upload them yourself. Assets keeps them after a VM is deleted, with unlimited storage on Starter and files up to 5 GiB each.
Not separately. The BoxCompute agent comes with an AI allowance: a daily one on the free plan and a larger one on Starter. To go further, bring your own model key, or connect your own agent over MCP so your AI provider bills you directly. Either way, you pay us only for VM time.
If you need a server running around the clock, a VPS costs less. BoxCompute is built for agent work: you pay by the second only while a VM runs, the AI agent, browser desktop and live previews come with it, and idle VMs stop on their own.