Terminus vs boxd

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Terminus compared with boxd
Detail	Terminus	boxd
What it does	Infrastructure to build and run apps, agents, skills and services	Composable computers for devs and agents
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	NL
Pricing model	Free	Not given
Pricing	Not 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	CLI for local development and deployment Apps with offline-capable records that sync across devices Long-running agents working 24/7 Reusable skills that work across platforms Hosted and external services integration Free hosting Local testing with terminus dev simulator Background jobs, schedules and webhooks Support for TypeScript, Rust, Python, Go, C and C++ services Shared spaces for team collaboration	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	Lego-style composable components that connect together Free hosting forever for all creations Unified workflow from local development to published releases	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)	3 +1 (up) since last check	44 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	5	8
Citation Flow (Majestic)	26	37
Referring domains (Majestic)	4	151

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