{
  "logo": {
    "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
    "file": "/logos/upstash-box.png",
    "source_url": "https://upstash.com"
  },
  "name": "Upstash Box",
  "ownership": {
    "bowerbird": false,
    "operator": "Upstash, Inc."
  },
  "products": {
    "agent_sandbox": {
      "billing": {
        "granularity_seconds": {
          "unknown": "Pricing page and docs give prices per active CPU hour without a metering increment"
        },
        "minimum_seconds": {
          "unknown": "Not on the pricing page or in the Box docs"
        },
        "payment_model": "metered",
        "per_job_fee_usd": 0.0,
        "plan_minimum_usd_per_month": 0.0,
        "source": {
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box"
        }
      },
      "billing_basis": "active_cpu",
      "capabilities": {
        "agent_run_api": true,
        "desktop": "browser",
        "docker_inside": {
          "unknown": "Docs say each box is a Docker container; running Docker inside a box is not documented"
        },
        "gpu": false,
        "preinstalled_agents": [
          "claude_code",
          "codex",
          "opencode",
          "cursor"
        ],
        "sdks": [
          "python",
          "typescript",
          "cli",
          "rest",
          "mcp"
        ],
        "soc2": {
          "unknown": "Upstash compliance page says Redis under Pro and Enterprise support plans is SOC 2 compliant; Box is not mentioned"
        },
        "source": {
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "source_url": "https://upstash.com/docs/box/overall/how-it-works"
        },
        "ssh": true
      },
      "categories": [
        "agent_sandbox",
        "devbox"
      ],
      "free": {
        "minutes_per_month": {
          "unknown": "Free plan includes 5 active CPU hours a month (CPU core-hours, not box runtime minutes)"
        },
        "one_time_credit_usd": 0.0,
        "source": {
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box"
        },
        "usd_per_month": 0.0
      },
      "isolation": "container",
      "lifecycle": {
        "auto_stop_minutes": 60,
        "cold_start_claim_ms": {
          "unknown": "No start-time figure on the Box product page, pricing page or docs"
        },
        "fork": "disk",
        "idle_billed": false,
        "pause_resume": true,
        "persistence": "filesystem",
        "snapshots": true,
        "source": {
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "source_url": "https://upstash.com/docs/box/overall/how-it-works"
        }
      },
      "max_concurrent_sandboxes": 10,
      "max_memory_gb": 16.0,
      "max_session_minutes": {
        "unknown": "No maximum lifetime for standard boxes (they auto-pause and resume); ephemeral boxes have a TTL of at most 259,200 s (3 days)"
      },
      "max_vcpu": 8,
      "name": "Upstash Box (Pay as You Go)",
      "notes": [
        "Prices are per active CPU hour as published (Small $0.10, Medium $0.20, Large $0.40); the FAQ explains it as core-hours: 100% of 2 cores for an hour costs $0.20. Memory is free.",
        "Keep-alive boxes never pause and cost a fixed $8 (Small), $16 (Medium) or $32 (Large) per box a month, covering CPU and storage; they need a paid plan.",
        "Standard boxes auto-pause after 1 hour idle on Free and 6 hours on paid plans; paused boxes keep their files but not running processes.",
        "Each box includes an Upstash-provided LLM token budget for the built-in agent ($1 a month on Free, $100 on Pay as You Go); bring-your-own-key works on all plans.",
        "Custom Docker images are listed as coming soon; boxes start from Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby or Rust runtimes.",
        "Medium disk is 20 GB in the Box docs and the pricing FAQ but 30 GB in the pricing size table."
      ],
      "plans": [
        {
          "basis": "account",
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "includes": "10 concurrent boxes, 5 CPU hours a month, $1 LLM token budget a month, Small size",
          "name": "Free",
          "period": "month",
          "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box",
          "usd": 0.0
        },
        {
          "basis": "account",
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "includes": "1,000 concurrent boxes (default quota), unlimited CPU hours, $100 LLM token budget a month",
          "name": "Pay as You Go",
          "period": "month",
          "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box",
          "usd": 0.0
        },
        {
          "basis": "server",
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "includes": "Always-on 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 10 GB box; CPU and storage included",
          "name": "Fixed (keep-alive) Small",
          "period": "month",
          "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box",
          "usd": 8.0
        },
        {
          "basis": "server",
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "includes": "Always-on 4 vCPU / 8 GB box; CPU and storage included",
          "name": "Fixed (keep-alive) Medium",
          "period": "month",
          "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box",
          "usd": 16.0
        },
        {
          "basis": "server",
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "includes": "Always-on 8 vCPU / 16 GB / 30 GB box; CPU and storage included",
          "name": "Fixed (keep-alive) Large",
          "period": "month",
          "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box",
          "usd": 32.0
        }
      ],
      "platform": {
        "byoc": {
          "unknown": "No own-cloud or VPC option on the Box pricing page or in the Box docs"
        },
        "regions": [
          "us-east-1"
        ],
        "self_host": {
          "unknown": "No open-source Box runtime described on the Box pages or docs"
        },
        "source": {
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box"
        }
      },
      "pricing": {
        "per_size": [
          {
            "disk_gb": 10.0,
            "id": "small",
            "label": "Small",
            "memory_gb": 4.0,
            "price": {
              "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
              "per": "hour",
              "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box",
              "usd": 0.1
            },
            "vcpu": 2
          },
          {
            "disk_gb": 20.0,
            "id": "medium",
            "label": "Medium",
            "memory_gb": 8.0,
            "price": {
              "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
              "per": "hour",
              "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box",
              "usd": 0.2
            },
            "vcpu": 4
          },
          {
            "disk_gb": 30.0,
            "id": "large",
            "label": "Large",
            "memory_gb": 16.0,
            "price": {
              "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
              "per": "hour",
              "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box",
              "usd": 0.4
            },
            "vcpu": 8
          }
        ]
      },
      "storage": {
        "disk_included_gb": {
          "unknown": "Pricing card lists Included Storage 10 GB for Small, while the same page says storage is billed separately at $0.10 per GB-month on Pay as You Go"
        },
        "disk_usd_per_gb_month": 0.1,
        "egress_usd_per_gb": {
          "unknown": "Not on the Box pricing page or in the Box docs"
        },
        "snapshot_usd_per_gb_month": 0.1,
        "source": {
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "slug": "upstash-box",
  "status": {
    "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
    "source_url": "https://upstash.com/pricing/box",
    "value": "active"
  },
  "summary": "Container sandboxes with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Cursor built in, billed per active CPU hour by size, with fixed monthly keep-alive boxes.",
  "website": "https://upstash.com/box"
}