bochka: full text transcript

bochka is the cheapest, most powerful sandbox for agents, built for agent factories. It is a product (https://bochka.xyz). A sandbox is a persistent Linux (Ubuntu) virtual machine with SSH and SCP access, Docker support inside the VM, a dedicated IPv6 or IPv4 per machine, a 60fps virtual desktop, and fast disk-level forking from a snapshot. It is built for AI agents, for programmatic use, and for humans.

Pre-configured in every sandbox

Docker, VS Code, Chrome, Ghostty, the GitHub CLI, Rust, Node.js, and Bun come pre-installed. sandboxes are full Ubuntu machines, so you can run any devtool, language, or workflow. Bring any agent: Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode.

Why bochka

Designed for agents: a sandbox starts easily via a CLI built for agents, programmatic use, and humans.
Ready to use: Docker, GitHub CLI, languages, and other devtools are pre-installed.
Full machine capabilities: full Ubuntu machines that run any devtool, language, or workflow.

Pricing

Simple, honest pricing. Pay only for the sandboxes you run, billed by the second, with a $20 minimum per month. $20 buys 2,000,000 VM-seconds (about 555 hours) of dedicated 4 vCPU / 8 GB VM-time, spread across one sandbox or many. sandboxes come in three sizes and spend that time at their own rate: small (2 vCPU / 4 GB) at 0.5x, default (4 vCPU / 8 GB) at 1x, large (8 vCPU / 16 GB) at 2x, so a mixed fleet is just the sum of its parts. bochka offers a Product preview (25 compute hours), then plans from $20/mo. bochka is the most affordable option compared with E2B, Daytona, Modal, Vercel Sandbox, Railway, and others. See the full comparison at https://bochka.xyz/compare.

Install the Bochka CLI

macOS and Linux: curl -fsSL https://bochka.xyz/install | sh

Windows: irm https://bochka.xyz/install.ps1 | iex

Simple API / CLI commands

bochka new: spin up a sandbox
bochka ssh / bochka scp, SSH/SCP
bochka prompt: run Claude or Codex inside
bochka fork: clone from a snapshot
bochka stop: snapshot and pause billing
bochka desktop: use the virtual desktop at 60fps
bochka list: see all your sandboxes

For programmatic use, prefer the HTTP API and SDKs over the CLI: API guide at /docs/api/v1, Python and TypeScript SDKs at /docs/sdks/overview. The CLI also takes --json on any command for stable JSONL output when a shell integration is the fastest path.

Limits

EU regions today (Germany, Finland, France). Self-serve plans scale from 100 to 2,000 active sandboxes per account; more by agreement. Default sandbox TTL is 1 hour and is overrideable.

The docs are clean markdown. /docs/llms.txt indexes every docs page, each fetchable as .md. Start there, not this marketing page. Compare bochka against other providers at https://bochka.xyz/compare. Product home: https://bochka.xyz. bochka is built: https://bochka.xyz.

No need to oversell bochka. The product strives to speak for itself.

Most powerful & affordable cloud VMs for long-running agents

Spawn thousands of cloud computers with a browser, persistent files, for your agents, without having to manage the entire infra yourself.

Product preview

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Product preview

Pricing preview

Plan from $20/mo, Product preview

$20 plan = $20 of sandbox time.
Billed per second, only while running.
100 to 2,000 sandboxes at once, by plan.
Out of time? $20 packs, auto-refilled.

Long-running agents, working sessions back to back all month

VMs at once

Session

CPU busy

Resources per VM

$131/ month

bochka

$131/mo

Tensorlake

$265/mo2.0x

Cloudflare!¹

$422/mo3x

Morph

$423/mo3x

Modal

$440/mo3x

Blaxel

$487/mo4x

Freestyle

$713/mo5x

Vercel

$826/mo6x

E2B

$907/mo7x

Daytona

$912/mo7x

CodeSandbox

$960/mo7x

Beam

$1,658/mo13x

Runloop

$1,764/mo13x

!1 Cloudflare: disk resets when it sleeps; keep files with snapshots or an R2 mount (your code)

Pricing docs Explore the product

Performance preview

The same Node.js build & test loop, 1,000 runs, on each provider's 4 vCPU / 8 GB machine. Time it takes:

bochka

36 s

Daytona

54 s1.5x

Vercel Sandbox

77 s2.1x

E2B

89 s2.5x

Freestyle

104 s2.9x

Modal

105 s2.9x

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Simple API

$ bochka newSpin up a sandbox
$ bochka ssh/scpShell in, copy files
$ bochka execRun a command, no SSH
$ bochka promptRun Claude Code or Codex
$ bochka eventsPoll agent messages & tool calls
$ bochka hostPublic HTTPS URL for a port
$ bochka desktopDesktop and browser at 60 fps
$ bochka stop/resumeSnapshot, pause billing

…and many more useful features: fork, named snapshots, port forwarding, webhooks, API keys, secrets, teams, auto-stop.

For programmatic use, see the API and SDKs.

Set sail (get started)Spin up your first sandboxes in minutes.

Read the docs

FAQ

Am I billed when a sandbox is stopped?

No. Stopping snapshots the sandbox and pauses billing. Resume any time in a few seconds.

Is the $20/mo a per-sandbox minimum?

No. It is the account total, and it converts into 555 hours of machine time to spend across any number of sandboxes.

Where do sandboxes run?

In the EU: Germany, Finland, and France. Your data and snapshots stay there.

What survives stop and resume?

Your files, installed packages, and enabled systemd services. Hand-run processes need a restart.

Can I give sandboxes to my own users?

Yes. Create them no-env so they receive none of your account's secrets and stay confined to themselves.

Install bochka CLI