# The managed cloud for AI agents.

Give your agent compute, networking, a domain, a filesystem and a database — not just a sandbox. Run it on our fleet, or your own.

- Get an API key: https://app.boxlite.ai
- Documentation: https://docs.boxlite.ai
- Full guide written for agents: https://boxlite.ai/agent.md

## What you get

### Two shapes, one API

A disposable box for untrusted code, or a persistent agent home that keeps working between sessions. Same call, different lifetime.

### Storage that outlives the box

Attach a managed volume and the data survives the box it was created in. Up to 120 GiB of storage per box.

### Idle-stop, wake on access

Boxes stop when they go idle and wake when something touches them. You don't babysit the lifecycle.

### Same SDK. A URL and a key.

Python, Node.js, and the CLI, against the same core API you use locally. Point the SDK at the REST URL and pass an API key.

## Local or Cloud

Cloud is the same SDK and the same core API as the local runtime — reached over a URL instead of loaded in-process.

| | Local | Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Where boxes run | Your laptop, your servers, air-gapped | BoxLite's managed fleet |
| How you reach it | In-process library, no account | REST URL + SDK |
| You operate | Hosts, image cache, capacity | Nothing |
| Isolation | Hardware microVM, own kernel | Hardware microVM, own kernel |
| Storage | Your own disk | Managed volumes and cloud disks that outlive the box |
| Box lifecycle | You manage it | Idle-stop and wake-on-access |
| Concurrency | As far as your own hardware goes | Thousands of concurrent boxes |
| Support | Discord and GitHub issues | Dedicated support for Cloud customers |
| Best for | Local dev, embedding in your app, on-prem | Production agents, bursty scale, teams |

## Pricing

- **Pay as you go** — $0.0666 per hour, smallest box. No subscription. Usage draws on a prepaid wallet.
  - 1 vCPU · 1 GiB memory · 10 GiB disk
  - CPU — $0.0504 per vCPU·hour
  - Memory — $0.0144 per GiB·hour
  - Disk — $0.00018 per GiB·hour
  - No plan required — run on wallet balance alone
  - Top up $25, $500, $1,000, $2,000, or a custom amount
  - Connect a card for $100 of credits
  - Redeem coupon codes for credits
- **Starter** — $19 per month. Get an agent into production.
  - $30 included usage each cycle
  - 20 concurrent boxes
- **Pro** — $149 per month. For agents carrying real traffic.
  - $250 included usage each cycle
  - 100 concurrent boxes
- **Max** — $499 per month. Fleet-scale parallel agents.
  - $900 included usage each cycle
  - 1,000 concurrent boxes
- **Enterprise** — Custom annual. Procurement and a security review.
  - Custom limits by agreement
  - Compliance review
  - Dedicated support
  - Invoicing and annual billing

Per-box ceilings apply on every plan: 4 vCPU, 32 GiB memory, 120 GiB storage. Included quota covers usage first; a prepaid wallet funds the rest.

## FAQ

### Is Cloud the same thing as the open-source runtime?

Yes. The docs describe Cloud as a hosted agent runtime built on BoxLite — the same SDK and the same core API, reached with a URL and an API key, with managed storage and a managed box lifecycle.

### How do I connect the SDK to Cloud?

Create an API key in the console, then point the SDK at the REST endpoint: BOXLITE_API_KEY holds the key (it looks like blk_live_… and is shown in full only once), and BOXLITE_REST_URL defaults to https://app.boxlite.ai/api.

### What does it cost to start?

New accounts start with $100 in credits, so you can build and run against Cloud before spending anything of your own. Boxes are priced per hour, and the console shows the rate for a given size before you create it.

### Do I need a subscription?

No. You can run wallet-only with no plan, take a plan on its own, or combine the two — a plan's included quota covers usage first and a prepaid wallet funds the rest.

### How big can a single box get?

Per-box ceilings apply on every plan: 4 vCPU, 32 GiB of memory, and 120 GiB of storage. That is a separate constraint from your plan's concurrency limit.

### Can I keep running it entirely myself?

Yes. The runtime is Apache 2.0 and runs on your own machines with no account and no data leaving them. Nothing about the open-source path is going away.

### Can I use my existing Docker images?

On Cloud, image is an alias: base, python, or node — a Docker reference like python:slim is rejected when the box is created. Install what you need into a running box, or attach it with copy_in. The open-source runtime does take any OCI image unmodified, so bring-your-own-image works today by running BoxLite yourself.

## Pages

- [BoxLite — The managed cloud for AI agents](https://boxlite.ai) — Hosted microVMs for AI agents: compute, networking, a filesystem and a database, on BoxLite's fleet or your own.
- [BoxLite Open Source — the local-first embedded runtime for AI agents](https://boxlite.ai/oss) — Apache 2.0 microVMs as a library. No daemon, no cloud, no root — on your laptop, your cluster, or your customer's machine.
- [About BoxLite](https://boxlite.ai/about) — What BoxLite is, how the open-source runtime and the managed cloud relate, and who builds it.
- [Contact BoxLite](https://boxlite.ai/contact) — Support email, Discord, GitHub issues and sales — every channel that reaches the BoxLite team.

## Machine-readable files

- [/llms.txt](https://boxlite.ai/llms.txt) — Site summary and links, llms.txt format
- [/agent.md](https://boxlite.ai/agent.md) — Full guide for coding agents using BoxLite Cloud
- [/sitemap.xml](https://boxlite.ai/sitemap.xml) — All indexable pages
- [/robots.txt](https://boxlite.ai/robots.txt) — Crawl policy

## Elsewhere

- [Documentation](https://docs.boxlite.ai)
- [Console](https://app.boxlite.ai)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite)
- [Discord](https://go.boxlite.ai/discord)