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BrainDog compared with boxd
DetailBrainDog logo BrainDogboxd logo boxd
What it doesA workspace for projects, decisions and money that every agent reads and updates Composable computers for devs and agents
StageNot given Not given
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inNot given NL
Pricing modelFree 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
  • Connect coding agents via MCP protocol (Claude Code, Cursor and others)
  • Centralized project tracking with decisions and money
  • Audit trail with every change signed and undoable
  • Approval controls for money, deletions and key access
  • Learning system that reduces approval requests after 10 similar actions
  • Team collaboration with email invitations and role-based access
  • Built-in Slash assistant with 20 questions per month on free plan
  • 1,000 automation runs per month on free plan
  • Full data export available anytime
  • Sealed backups every night with secure key storage
  • 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
  • Works with any agent that speaks MCP protocol, not vendor-locked to one tool
  • Integrates work tracking and financial management in one place agents automatically read
  • Full audit trail and undo capability for every change
  • Learns from agent behavior to reduce approval overhead over time
  • Free tier includes all features with no credit card required
  • 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)12 +12 (up) since last check44 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)08
Citation Flow (Majestic)037
Referring domains (Majestic)0151

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