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boxd vs Celesto
Two code sandboxes tools for AI agents, side by side. Facts come from each tool's own site.
boxd
boxd.shHardware-isolated Linux VMs for agents and developers that keep running processes, files and shell state between sessions, with fork, snapshot, pause and hibernate, in boxd's cloud or self-hosted.
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Celesto
celesto.aiHardware-isolated cloud computers for AI agents, with browser, desktop, shell and file access, pause, resume and forking, via CLI and SDK; Apache-2.0 microVM core you can self-host.
Visit Celesto| boxd | Celesto | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Hardware-isolated Linux VMs for agents and developers that keep running processes, files and shell state between sessions, with fork, snapshot, pause and hibernate, in boxd's cloud or self-hosted. | Hardware-isolated cloud computers for AI agents, with browser, desktop, shell and file access, pause, resume and forking, via CLI and SDK; Apache-2.0 microVM core you can self-host. |
| In their words | Composable computers for devs and agents | Celesto: Build agents. Give them real computers. |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Website | boxd.sh | celesto.ai |
| Link checked | 2026-11-08 | 2026-10-20 |
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