# InstaBox blog

https://instabox.sh/blog.md

Launches, engineering notes, and lessons from giving every AI agent its own computer.

- [Our Trust Center Is Live](https://instabox.sh/blog/trust-center.md): 2026-11-10 · Tony Chang · Company. The InstaBox Trust Center is live, with our security controls, SOC 2 and HIPAA status, and subprocessors. A SOC 2 report and a BAA are available on request.
- [Better Clarity on What Each Box Costs](https://instabox.sh/blog/usage-by-box.md): 2026-11-09 · Tony Chang · Product. You can now see exactly how much each box costs, with a detailed breakdown of resource usage and charges.
- [Omarchy Desktop Boxes](https://instabox.sh/blog/omarchy.md): 2026-11-08 · Tony Chang · Product. InstaBox now has an omarchy template: Arch Linux with Omarchy's Hyprland desktop, on every plan, free included.
- [InstaBox in Python](https://instabox.sh/blog/python-sdk.md): 2026-11-07 · Tony Chang · Product. Run pip install instabox-sdk and drive InstaBox from Python. Create a box, run commands in it, move files and folders, pause it, snapshot it and delete it.
- [Revamped Docs with Mintlify](https://instabox.sh/blog/mintlify-docs.md): 2026-11-06 · Tony Chang · Product. We revamped the InstaBox docs with Mintlify. Ask the assistant on any page, and hand any page to your coding agent.
- [Pay for InstaBox with Alipay](https://instabox.sh/blog/alipay.md): 2026-11-05 · Tony Chang · Product. You can now pay for the Pro and Builder plans with Alipay, and it renews each month like a card.
- [Every Paid Plan Just Got Better](https://instabox.sh/blog/plan-limits.md): 2026-11-04 · Tony Chang · Product. Every paid plan now includes more disk and can start more boxes a minute.
- [The Builder Plan](https://instabox.sh/blog/builder-plan.md): 2026-11-03 · Tony Chang · Product. Builder is a new $100 a month plan between Pro and Team, with 16 vCPU machines, 200 concurrent machines and 1 TiB of disk included.
- [Android Boxes](https://instabox.sh/blog/android.md): 2026-11-03 · Tony Chang · Product. InstaBox now runs Android, so an agent can install, test and drive an app in a box, on every plan.
- [InstaBox Agent Toolkit: CLI, Skills and MCP](https://instabox.sh/blog/agent-mcp-skills.md): 2026-11-01 · Tony Chang · Product. An agent-native toolkit for InstaBox: the CLI, agent skills and an MCP server, so your coding agent knows how to use boxes. Install them on your machine, or start an agent in any box, where they are already set up.
- [Usage Alerts by Email](https://instabox.sh/blog/usage-alerts.md): 2026-10-31 · Tony Chang · Product. Paid workspaces now get an email at 80% of the month's included usage, when it is used up, when a charge is made and when a payment fails. You pick the percent.
- [InstaBox CI](https://instabox.sh/blog/github-actions.md): 2026-10-31 · Tony Chang · Product. Connect GitHub, change one line in your workflow, and each job runs on a fresh InstaBox box.
- [InstaBox Webhooks](https://instabox.sh/blog/webhooks.md): 2026-10-29 · Tony Chang · Product. InstaBox now tells your server when a box changes state. No more polling.
- [Metrics for Every Box](https://instabox.sh/blog/sandbox-metrics.md): 2026-10-27 · Tony Chang · Product. Every box now has a Metrics tab with CPU, memory, network and disk I/O, so you can tell what an agent is doing without opening a shell.
- [Resize Boxes: Disk, CPU and Memory](https://instabox.sh/blog/resize.md): 2026-10-27 · Tony Chang · Product. Pro, Builder and Team boxes can now increase or decrease their disk and change their specs.
- [Paused Boxes Wake on Request](https://instabox.sh/blog/wake-on-use.md): 2026-10-26 · Tony Chang · Product. An idle box pauses to a snapshot, and the next request wakes it up again. No start call needed.
- [Higher Concurrency Limits](https://instabox.sh/blog/higher-concurrency-limits.md): 2026-10-25 · Hang Huang · Product. Pro now runs up to 100 boxes at once, and Team up to 500.
- [Introducing InstaBox Secrets](https://instabox.sh/blog/secrets.md): 2026-10-24 · Hang Huang · Product. InstaBox now supports secrets through an outbound proxy, so your API keys never enter the sandbox.
- [A Faster Way Off the Waitlist](https://instabox.sh/blog/faster-waitlist.md): 2026-10-23 · Hang Huang · Product. You can now see your waitlist position, and inviting friends gets you in sooner.
- [Secure Auth with WorkOS](https://instabox.sh/blog/workos.md): 2026-10-22 · Hang Huang · Product. InstaBox now uses WorkOS for auth and security, so we can send invite codes faster.
- [InstaBox Workspaces](https://instabox.sh/blog/workspaces.md): 2026-10-21 · Hang Huang · Product. You can now invite teammates to your InstaBox workspace and work on machines together.
- [Machine sizes are now available on InstaBox](https://instabox.sh/blog/machine-sizes-and-images.md): 2026-10-20 · Hang Huang · Product. InstaBox now ships 6 snapshots: Basic and Standard, each in small (2 vCPU / 4 GB), medium (4 vCPU / 8 GB), and large (8 vCPU / 16 GB).
- [InstaBox Pricing](https://instabox.sh/blog/instabox-pricing.md): 2026-10-19 · Hang Huang · Product. InstaBox ships pricing: a free 4 vCPU / 8 GB machine with no usage limit, and three pay-as-you-go paid tiers for more machines, bigger sizes, and lifecycle control.
- [Why We Moved Our Coding Agents to the Cloud](https://instabox.sh/blog/why-we-moved-our-coding-agents-to-the-cloud.md): 2026-10-18 · Tony Chang · Engineering. Our weekly GitHub contributions went from ~300 to ~1,200 in five months. ADEs gave us the first jump. Moving agents to cloud microVMs gave us the second.
- [A Million Agents Is a Distributed Systems Problem](https://instabox.sh/blog/a-million-agents-is-a-distributed-systems-problem.md): 2026-09-02 · Tony Chang · Engineering. Agents get tired like humans and overload like machines. Once you have thousands of them, the hard part is scheduling and coordination, not intelligence.