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Forge Orbital compared with boxd
DetailForge Orbital logo Forge Orbitalboxd logo boxd
What it doesAI accountability that grows into governance Composable computers for devs and agents
StageNot given Not given
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inUS NL
Pricing modelNot given 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
  • Governance: checks proposed AI actions against defined rules before execution
  • Recorded decision records that can be reviewed, replayed and verified later
  • Evaluation: compares AI agent performance using representative test cases and expected outcomes
  • Optimization: recommends model and cache candidates based on usage, prices and evaluation evidence
  • Regress detection identifies changed action paths and quality regressions
  • On-premises and private cloud deployment
  • Integration with existing AI tools via connectors and wrappers
  • No model training on customer data; separate data boundaries from external AI providers
  • Cost comparison and optimization across model and cache configurations
  • 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
  • Independent accountability: checks run inside your systems, not asking another AI to audit AI
  • Your people keep authority: Forge produces decision evidence, your business enforces results
  • Recorded decision evidence that auditors and regulators can examine
  • Designed for consequential work in regulated industries like financial services
  • Not another dashboard: integrates into your workflow without replacing your AI tools
  • 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)Not checked yet no change since last check44 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)08
Citation Flow (Majestic)737
Referring domains (Majestic)22151

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