| Signup requirement | Nothing. A 32-character credential | Account required; requirements not stated publicly |
| Encrypted memory (AMD SEV-SNP) | Yes, Blackbox line from $9.99 | No |
| Measured boot (verifiable boot chain) | Yes, reproducible artifacts and a published verifier | No |
| Host access to your VM | None on Blackbox: no guest agent, disk encrypted inside the guest | Standard; on resold servers DigitalOcean, Vultr or Linode hold the hypervisor |
| Crypto processing | Own nodes, no third-party gateway | In-house payment system, crypto only (their privacy page) |
| Crypto payments | BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, BNB, TRX, USDT, USDC | Bitcoin listed; others shown at checkout |
| Card payments | Yes, through Stripe | No; cryptocurrency only (their privacy page) |
| Cash by mail | Yes, any currency | Not stated |
| VPS entry price | From $9.99 a month | Hourly; not published on the pages we could read |
| Billing terms | Any term from 7 to 365 days | Hourly |
| Server locations | 8 (US, CA, UK, NL, FR, DE, SG, HK) | 27 (DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode regions plus own) |
| Jurisdiction | Canada (Montreal) | Not stated in its terms |
| Hardware | Owned (Montreal) plus partner locations | Mostly resold; some own |
| Zero logs policy | Yes, with a PGP-signed warrant canary | Not stated |
| Tor and I2P access | Yes, .onion and .i2p mirrors | Not stated |
| Works without JavaScript | Yes. Every page works with JavaScript off, signup and checkout included; Stripe's script loads only if you pick card. | Control panel is a JavaScript app: app.bitlaunch.io renders an empty shell without it |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| Reseller or API | Full white-label reseller API | API |
| Founded | 2025 | 2017 |