# BoxCompute

> BoxCompute gives AI agents their own Linux computers in the cloud, hosted in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Connect your own agent, such as Claude, Codex, Cursor or Claude Code, through the MCP server, sandbox API, CLI, and SDKs, or chat with the BoxCompute agent and it does the work on its own VM. BoxCompute is an AI agent sandbox provider based in Malaysia.

- Regions: Cyberjaya, Malaysia (online). Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Australia: coming soon.
- Sandboxes: full Linux VMs on KubeVirt with root access. Small is 0.5 vCPU and 1 GiB of RAM; Large is 1.5 vCPU and 3 GiB; with Starter, XL is 4 vCPU and 8 GiB and XXL is 4 to 8 vCPU and 16 GiB. Each has a 30 GiB root disk by default.
- Pricing: billed by the second while a VM runs, about $0.05 an hour for Small, $0.15 for Large, $0.40 for XL and $0.80 for XXL. Stopped VMs cost nothing. Pay as you go: add $5 to $500 of credit at a time with no subscription; it pays for VM time only and never expires. Starter is $15.99 a month with $40 of monthly credit for the first 30 members, a larger AI allowance for the BoxCompute agent, and every VM running at once.
- Free: sign up at https://app.boxcompute.ai/signup for $5 of compute credit valid for 14 days, no card required. Free accounts get the BoxCompute agent with a daily AI allowance, with a limit on chats and VMs running at once.
- Your own agent over MCP: add https://mcp.boxcompute.ai/mcp to Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another MCP client, sign in or use an API key, and it can create VMs, run commands, edit files and open preview URLs. Its AI is billed by your own provider; BoxCompute bills only VM time. Setup: https://boxcompute.ai/docs/mcp/
- Your own agent in code: the same VMs through the HTTP API, CLI and TypeScript/Python SDKs, plus LangGraph, CrewAI, Mastra, Pi and Hermes integrations.
- BoxCompute agent: chat at https://app.boxcompute.ai and the agent works on its own VM: installs software, runs apps, shares live preview links, and uses a browser desktop.
- Enterprise: Agentic VMs on your own infrastructure or cloud account.

## Pages

- [Home](https://boxcompute.ai/): product overview, pricing and FAQ
- [Pricing](https://boxcompute.ai/pricing/): Start free with $5 of credit, no card required. Pay as you go from $5, or take Starter at $15.99 a month with $40 of credit. VMs bill by the second: about $0.05 an hour for Small and $0.15 for Large.
- [AI agent sandboxes in Southeast Asia](https://boxcompute.ai/ai-agent-sandbox-southeast-asia/): BoxCompute runs AI agent sandboxes as full Linux VMs in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Where it runs, what each sandbox includes, pricing, and where other sandbox providers run.
- [Blog](https://boxcompute.ai/blog/): Notes on the technology behind agent workspaces. Virtualization, infrastructure, and the boundaries that make them work.
- [E2B alternatives in 2026: seven options compared](https://boxcompute.ai/blog/e2b-alternatives/): Daytona, Modal, Vercel Sandbox, Cloudflare, Northflank, Runloop and BoxCompute compared on isolation, session limits, what survives a stop and price, with sources for every claim.
- [What is an AI agent sandbox? A plain guide for 2026](https://boxcompute.ai/blog/what-is-an-ai-agent-sandbox/): An AI agent sandbox is an isolated computer where an agent can run code, install software and use a browser safely. The kinds of isolation, what to check, and when you need one.
- [Give Claude Code a cloud computer with MCP](https://boxcompute.ai/blog/claude-code-cloud-computer/): Connect Claude Code to a Linux VM in two minutes, so it can run commands, edit files and share preview links away from your laptop. Works with Codex and Cursor too.
- [Choosing an AI agent sandbox in 2026: E2B, Daytona, Modal, Vercel and BoxCompute](https://boxcompute.ai/blog/ai-agent-sandbox-comparison/): Five AI agent sandboxes compared on start time, session limits, what survives a stop, regions in Asia, desktops and price, with sources for every claim and where BoxCompute is slower.
- [Your sandbox can now serve requests](https://boxcompute.ai/blog/sandbox-serves-requests/): A sandbox that can answer inbound connections without opening ports, and without routing every byte through a central proxy. How Tailcat NAT traversal works, and how it compares with frp and ngrok.
- [Full Linux VMs for your agents — VM Sandboxes](https://boxcompute.ai/blog/vm-sandboxes/): VM Sandboxes give agents a full Linux VM with root, outbound internet, and no fixed lifetime. Here is what changed and how to start using them.
- [I got frustrated with AWS, so we built our own sandbox](https://boxcompute.ai/blog/why-we-built-boxcompute/): At my previous company, a healthcare startup, I gave a LangGraph agent a sandbox to analyze data on its own. That experiment, and a regional availability problem, became the starting point for BoxCompute.
- [Why we chose KubeVirt for our VM sandboxes](https://boxcompute.ai/blog/why-we-chose-kubevirt/): We needed full Linux machines without a separate VM management platform. Why KubeVirt fit BoxCompute, and the tradeoffs we accept.
- [KubeVirt, VSOCK, and eBPF: who does what?](https://boxcompute.ai/blog/kubevirt-vsock-ebpf/): A beginner’s guide to virtual machines, host–guest communication, and where eBPF can enforce isolation.

## Documentation

- [Documentation index](https://boxcompute.ai/docs/llms.txt)
- [Full documentation](https://boxcompute.ai/docs/llms-full.txt)