InstaBox
provider: "instabox"
Sign-up is waitlisted: new accounts go on a waitlist before they can create boxes or keys. Checked 2026-11-05.
Per second while running on fixed sizes (2/4, 4/8, 8/16); paused or stopped boxes bill only /data beyond the included disk ($0.00011/GiB-h); Pro $20/mo includes $20 credits; free plan: 1 box at 4/8.
List price per hour
| 1 vCPU · 2 GB | $0.017 |
| 2 vCPU · 4 GB | $0.017 |
| 4 vCPU · 8 GB | $0.034 |
| 8 vCPU · 16 GB | $0.068 |
| 16 vCPU · 32 GB | max 8 vCPU |
| 32 vCPU · 128 GB | max 8 vCPU |
- Source
- instabox.sh, 2026-11-05 (an estimate, not a bill)
- Billing
- the size you ask for, while it runs
- Plan
- none needed
Adapter
- Supports
- Exec + streaming · Files · Pause · Custom image
- Max size
- 8 vCPU · 16 GB
- Routing
- Chosen when it's the cheapest fit, if you already have a key
- Docs
- instabox.sh
Measured on real accounts
- Real-account check
- not run yet
- tested against a mock of its API only
- Cold start
- not measured
- no benchmark run yet
- Succeeded
- not measured
- no benchmark run yet
- Size you get
- not measured
- no cost run yet
- Billed vs list price
- not measured
- no cost run yet
Help verify InstaBox
Have a InstaBox account? These run real sandboxes on it, for a few cents at most, and write result files that fill in the blanks above. Results never include your keys. Run them in a clone of the repo and open a pull request with the files: CI checks every file for keys and impossible numbers, and a maintainer reviews each one before it shows here.
npx @sandboxrouter/sdk check --provider instabox --save --by YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME
npx @sandboxrouter/sdk bench --provider instabox --runs 5 --share --label "your city or cloud region" --by YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME
npx @sandboxrouter/sdk cost run --provider instabox --minutes 10 --by YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAMEReal-account check, step by step
Not run on a real account yet; the adapter is tested against a mock of InstaBox's API.
npm i @sandboxrouter/sdk
export INSTABOX_API_KEY=...import { Router } from "@sandboxrouter/sdk";
const router = new Router();
const sbx = await router.create({}, { provider: "instabox" });
await sbx.exec("uname -a", { onStdout: (c) => process.stdout.write(c) });
await sbx.kill();