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box by ASCII persistent virtual machines for coding agents
A box is a persistent Ubuntu machine with SSH and SCP access, Docker, a dedicated IPv4 address, a virtual desktop, snapshots, and disk-level forking. The official docs provide CLI, HTTP API, Python SDK, and TypeScript SDK paths. Stopping a box snapshots its state and pauses billing, while a fork creates another machine from that saved state.
At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- ASCII
- Launch date
- July 23, 2026
- Launch type
- New Product
- Category
- AI Developer Tools, AI Infrastructure
- Audience
- Developers, Founders
- Pricing
- The official site lists per-second billing with a $20 monthly account minimum. That amount includes 2,000,000 VM-seconds, about 555 hours, for dedicated 4-vCPU and 8-GB VM time shared across one or more boxes; ASCII’s comparison page carries the current account terms.
- Free plan
- No
- API
- Yes
- Open weights/source
- Not publicly confirmed
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Verification & Sources
- Status
- Verified
- Source links
- 4
- Freshness
- Verified July 25, 2026
- Last verified
- July 25, 2026
- Last updated
- July 25, 2026
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Kingy AI Take
box by ASCII addresses a concrete need: Long-running and parallel coding agents need isolated computers with persistent state. The main limitation is this: The official site currently lists EU regions only and an account minimum.
Who it is for
AI Platform Teams, AI Engineers, Developers, Founders
What feels promising
Long-running and parallel coding agents need isolated computers with persistent state. box packages that infrastructure into a self-serve service aimed specifically at agent workloads.
What feels unproven
The official site currently lists EU regions only and an account minimum. Builders should test network isolation, secret handling, snapshot retention, concurrency limits, data residency, and total workload cost before production use.
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