Knostic vs boxd

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Knostic compared with boxd
Detail	Knostic	boxd
What it does	Control plane for agentic AI security on the endpoint	Composable computers for devs and agents
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	US	NL
Pricing model	Freemium	Not given
Pricing	Kirin: Free ($0/mo) for individual developers and small teams (1-5 users), Team plan at $15/mo per user for growing teams (5+ users), Enterprise plan with custom pricing. AgentMesh: Free ($0/mo) with 300 items per category, Premium at $15/mo per user, Pro at $850/mo per user for unlimited API access	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	Policy enforcement before agent execution Blocks prompt injections and rogue agent actions Real-time detection of malicious behavior MCP server scanning and blocking Shadow AI discovery across organization Secrets detection and prevention Skills and extensions vetting Dangerous artifacts rejection Support for Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf Minute-level deployment	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	Visibility into shadow AI across enterprise systems Unified control plane for multiple coding agents and IDEs Supply chain threat discovery before components run Secure coding enforcement with threat modeling	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 plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	62 +1 (up) since last check	44 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	16	8
Citation Flow (Majestic)	40	37
Referring domains (Majestic)	810	151

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