bochka vs other providers
A persistent Linux VM with SSH access. Fast disk-level fork, IPv6 or IPv4 per VM, 60fps desktop, Docker support inside. Affordable and transparent pricing.
Optimized for building powerful & highly profitable agent platforms
Some examples:
Agent factory
Many agents in parallel, each on its own VM. Fork to branch. Cross-VM comms.
24/7 background services
IPv6 or IPv4 per VM, full TCP/UDP, Docker support inside, no session timeout.
Personal dev sandbox
SSH from anywhere, GUI when you need it. Survives reboots and reconnects.
Price
One hourly rate per machine size, billed per second while it runs, stopped is free. The same machine on every other provider, at their list prices.
Per hour, one machine
“Active CPU only” providers price the CPU seconds your code happens to burn, plus memory the whole time, so the same job costs a different amount every run and cannot be priced ahead. They publish no distribution of what their users actually consume; the rates above are their list prices at full use, the only number they publish. bochka's number is the whole bill.
Per month, a fleet
50 at once needs the $20/mo plan (100 at once, $20 of time included). The rest, $412, is time at $0.036/h bought as $20 packs or auto-refill.
Plans: what you run at once
| Plan | Run at once | Time included | Starts / min · hour · day |
|---|---|---|---|
| $20/mo | 100 | $20 worth · 555 h of default | 12 · 60 · 200 |
| $100/mo | 300 | $100 worth · 2,777 h of default | 30 · 210 · 840 |
| $500/mo | 1,000 | $500 worth · 13,888 h of default | 65 · 420 · 1680 |
| $2000/mo | 2,000 | $2000 worth · 55,555 h of default | 90 · 600 · 2400 |
A plan is not a fee: its price comes back as sandbox time at the rates above, plus the right to run that many at once. Unused time expires monthly; $20 packs never do. 25 free hours to start. Details in the docs.
Performance
Price per hour is half the story; the other half is how much work an hour does.
hpc-sandbox-benchmarks (2026-09-29: Vercel Sandbox · 2026-08-24: bochka, Freestyle · 2026-07-23: Daytona, Modal, E2B): the 4 vCPU / 8 GB machine of every provider (our default) running the same Node.js build & test loop: bundle, lint, test, repeat. Time for 1,000 runs:
Speed and price side by side
| 4 vCPU / 8 GB | Runs per second | Seconds per 1,000 runs | $ / hour | $ per million runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bochka | 27.7 | 36 s | $0.036 | $0.36 |
| Daytona | 18.6 | 54 s (1.5x slower) | $0.331 | $4.95 (14x) |
| Vercel Sandbox | 13.0 | 77 s (2.1x slower) | $0.682 | $14.61 (40x) |
| E2B | 11.2 | 89 s (2.5x slower) | $0.331 | $8.19 (23x) |
| Freestyle | 9.6 | 104 s (2.9x slower) | $0.264 | $7.62 (21x) |
| Modal † | 9.6 | 105 s (2.9x slower) | $0.760 | $22.07 (61x) |
The bochka row is our standard machine (AMD Ryzen 9 9950X hosts, internally called "baremetal"), where sandboxes normally run. When standard capacity is temporarily exhausted, a sandbox falls back to an older Hetzner cloud VM at the same price; that fallback did 8.9 runs per second (113 s per 1,000, $1.13 per million). Medians over several machines per provider, 95% intervals within ±20%.
† Modal: default runtime, cpu=4 in Modal units (the guest sees 4 CPUs; billed as 4 Modal cores) + 8 GiB. Its beta VM runtime did 15.1 runs per second. Priced as Modal bills that machine.
Measured on 2026-09-29: Vercel Sandbox · 2026-08-24: bochka, Freestyle · 2026-07-23: Daytona, Modal, E2B. Rows from different runs are indicative, not a like-for-like race.
The landscape
Capabilities
BYO repos + arbitrary setup script
SSH access
Docker inside the VM
No session cap / runs 24/7
Fast disk snapshots / branching
Dedicated IPv6 or IPv4 per VM
Full TCP/UDP + BYO domain
Flat pricing
Agent harness pre-installed
Process fork (memory + running processes)
1000+ concurrent VMs ergonomically
<500ms time to VM-ready
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