Close your laptop again.

Give every agent its own cloud computer. Bring your Codex or Claude subscription, start agents from Slack and Linear, and manage them from your desktop, phone, or terminal.

boxes.dev desktop workbench - thread list, agent transcript, integrated terminal

Manage your agents
from any surface.

With your dev environment in the cloud, every surface is a first-class client.

Steer agents while on the go. Not a remote control: read threads, approve requests, review diffs, or open a terminal.
boxes.dev desktop workbench with organized devboxes, transcript, and Git diff
boxes.dev mobile app showing a project's devboxes and threadsboxes.dev mobile app showing a live agent thread
dvb agents workspace in a terminal showing the live thread list
A local Claude Code session using the boxes.dev CLI to launch two parallel QA devboxes and claim a Project URL

Linux machines in the cloud,
not local worktrees.

boxes.dev gives each agent a whole computer that’s already running your dev environment (a “devbox”), and a way to steer that agent from anywhere.

Full computers, not worktrees.

A real Linux box with its own filesystem, port forwarding to localhost, and your dev setup preinstalled.

Isolation by default.

A fresh cloud machine for every meaningful body of work. No resource constraints, no port juggling.

Agents run while you’re away.

Close your laptop, go to bed, touch grass. Your agents keep working in the cloud.

Sleeping devboxes are free.

Idle boxes sleep automatically, so parallelism doesn’t turn into runaway costs.

three tasks → three fresh devboxes → Codex + Claude in parallel

Start from anywhere.
Slack, Linear, a schedule, or an API call.

Start a new agent on a devbox, get results where you asked for them.

SlackTag @boxes.dev to start work from any channel or thread. The agent gets the context and reports back in-thread.
LinearAssign an issue to Boxes.dev. The agent reports back in Linear and attaches any outputs or PRs.
ScheduleCodex or Claude on a cron: use to review past commits, post recurring updates to Slack, or run nightly QA on your app end to end.
APIOne call starts an agent on a fresh devbox. Wire up webhooks, CI, or anything else.

Pick any thread up later in your boxes.dev workspace and keep iterating. Optionally post agent responses to any Slack channel.

A @boxes.dev thread in Slack root-causing and fixing a customer report
Slack
Mention @boxes.dev to kick off work.
Linear
Assign an issue to a boxes.dev agent.
Schedules
Run Codex or Claude on a schedule.
$ curl -X POST api.boxes.dev/v1/threads \
-d '{ "project": "web",
"agent": "codex",
"prompt": "fix flaky auth test" }'
✓ devbox + thread started
API
Trigger an agent from anywhere.

From your laptop to the cloud
in three steps.

No complicated dev setup script. No new harness. Your coding agent migrates your dev environment to the cloud for you, and boxes.dev runs the same Codex or Claude Code subscription you’re already using.

Hand setup to your coding agent.

Paste one prompt into Claude Code or Codex in your project’s folder. Your agent looks through your dev environment (env files, local databases, tools outside the repo) and drafts a setup plan.

Claude Code signing in to boxes.dev and looking through the project

Port your setup to the cloud.

Review the setup plan with your agent and see exactly what will be uploaded. Once you approve, a second agent executes the plan and makes sure your app runs on the remote box.

Claude Code asking which machine size the setup plan should use

Take a snapshot—filesystem and memory.

Then get to work! Each agent gets a new devbox. Devboxes start from the snapshot in seconds.

Template box ready

We couldn’t find an ADE with
everything we wanted — so we built it.

Run native Claude Code and Codex on fresh cloud copies of the dev environment you already have running. Keep the same work in reach from the graphical workbench, the agent’s terminal UI, or native mobile.

Read the detailed comparisons
CapabilityBoxes.devDevinCursor
Full cloud computer per agent
cloud agents
cloud modepartial—Local / BYO
Persistent remote dev environmentsetup scriptmostBYO remoteBYO remote
Claude Code / Codex native harness & subscriptionDevin harnessCursor harness
one harness
limited
Full-featured iOS + Android appPWA only
iOS beta
—some—
Review diffs + address PR feedback—
Start and continue from Slack + Linearpartialpartiallimited—
Schedules + API triggerssomemostpartial—
Share live app preview with teammates
shared session
——most——
Managed MCPs / auth across all machines
cloud agents
somemixed——
includedpartial qualified or limited— not availableReflects publicly documented features reviewed August 24, 2026. Tell us what we got wrong.

Get started for free.
Pay only for compute.

Idle boxes sleep automatically. Sleeping boxes are free. Billed by the second. 4 vCPU / 8 GB RAM / 100 GB disk standard.

Trial
$0/ free

10 hours of compute included

Try out boxes.dev. Kick off small tasks throughout your day, or put a couple of agents to work overnight.

  • Template box + 2 awake devboxes
  • Unlimited sleeping devboxes, free
  • Up to 2 projects
  • Bring your own Codex + Claude Code
  • Desktop, mobile, web, CLI
Starter
$19/ user / mo

40 hours included

For an individual developer working on a side project, with a few agents occasionally running in parallel.

  • Template box + 4 awake devboxes
  • Unlimited sleeping devboxes, free
  • Up to 5 projects
  • Extra hours anytime at $0.75/hr
  • Email support
Teams
Customvolume

Volume hourly rates

For engineering organizations rolling out cloud coding agents across the team.

  • Custom seat & hour pools
  • SSO, SCIM, RBAC
  • Audit logs and spend controls
  • Dedicated resources & deployment
  • Custom MSA, security review
Standard boxes are 4 vCPU and 8 GB RAM; larger machines are available.
Uses your existing Codex or Claude Code subscription or API — we don’t sell tokens.
Extra hours are sold as prepaid credit with optional auto-buy · cancel anytime

Cloud coding agents
for the whole team.

Read the team brief
Share thread dialog

Share live agent sessions.

Link teammates to the session to see the live transcript, diffs, and screenshots. No pulled branches, no screen shares.

The running app open in a plain browser at its public preview URL, in front of the workbench's Project URLs panel

Preview URLs for running apps.

Every devbox port can get a public preview URL. Send the running app to anyone before merging your code.

SSO / SAML / OIDC
SCIM provisioning
Role-based access
Audit logs
Spend limits
Concurrency limits
BYO cloud / VPC
Network allowlists

Roll it out responsibly.

Safely give your team the power of cloud agents.

Talk to us

FAQ.

Still have a question? Get in touch.

A worktree gives you another checkout on the same machine. A boxes.dev devbox gives you another computer—its own filesystem, processes, ports, and database state—created from a Template box snapshot. Each agent can run your app, change dependencies, edit the database schema, or break things without affecting the others.

Free your coding agents.

Develop in the cloud: one computer per agent, running your full app, steerable from every device you own.

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