Rool® vs boxd

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Rool® compared with boxd
Detail	Rool®	boxd
What it does	Your private AI machine in the cloud	Composable computers for devs and agents
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	IE	NL
Pricing model	Freemium	Not given
Pricing	Standard: Free forever. Plus: €9/month. Pro: €25/month. Team plan: No subscription, pay per machine and per AI use from prepaid balance in US dollars. Machine sizes: R0 $5/month, R1 $10/month, R2 $30/month. AI pricing per million tokens: Rool® 1 input $0.35, cached input $0.07, output $0.70. Rool® 1	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	Persistent memory that builds knowledge graphs over time File storage and management with version control Collaboration with shared access and permissions Multiple Rool Machines per account Built-in connectors and custom MCP servers Full data export and API access Progressive Web App and mobile apps Hourly credit refills with daily limits Rool 1 and Rool 1.5 AI models EU infrastructure with self-hosted models	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	Private machine isolated at VM level, not just by access rules Hosted entirely in the EU with self-hosted AI models Never trains AI models on your data Free forever plan 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 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)	16 no change since last check	44 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	6	8
Citation Flow (Majestic)	29	37
Referring domains (Majestic)	56	151

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