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AI21 compared with boxd
DetailAI21 logo AI21boxd logo boxd
What it doesPost-train specialized models for your task, creating an AI edge your competitors can't buy Composable computers for devs and agents
StageEstablished Not given
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inIL NL
Pricing modelContact for pricing Not given
PricingNot given Credit-based pricing: €0.039 per vCPU-hour (active only), €0.012 per GiB-hour for RAM (memory in use), €0.00008 per GiB-hour for disk (written space only). New accounts receive €30 in free credits. A typical 2 vCPU / 8 GiB machine costs approximately €0.03 per hour while running (with 10% vCPU activ
Key features
  • Forward-Deployed Researchers provide end-to-end model training and optimization
  • Custom evaluation suite development from real tasks
  • Production-ready deployment with cost-quality trade-offs
  • Deployment flexibility including on-premises and VPC options
  • Data security with no retention and full traceability
  • Continuous model improvement from production traffic
  • Customer ownership of model weights and training recipes
  • Hardware-isolated Linux VMs with persistent state between sessions
  • Snapshots and checkpoints for machine state management
  • Automatic hibernation after 4 hours idle, paying for disk only
  • Pre-installed tools: Claude Code, Docker, Node, Python, Go, git, Chrome, ffmpeg, nginx
  • Public HTTPS URL per machine with custom domain support
  • Egress allowlist for network security and isolation
  • CLI, API, Python and TypeScript SDKs for automation
  • Integration with GitHub, Linear and Slack across all machines
What makes it different
  • Customers own specialized models trained on proprietary data, not rented general-purpose models
  • Achieve frontier-level quality at lower costs through specialized training
  • Five years of experience with diverse post-training and optimization methods
  • Models ship production-ready in weeks with ongoing improvement capability
  • Secure deployment with no data retention and auditable access controls
  • Hardware-isolated real VMs instead of containers, with full kernel isolation
  • Persistent machines remember running processes and state between disconnects
  • Pay only for active resources used, not provisioned size
  • Free self-hosting up to 16 vCPUs on your own infrastructure
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)75 no change since last check44 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)228
Citation Flow (Majestic)4437
Referring domains (Majestic)3529151

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