Blaxel vs Prime Sandboxes
Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.
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Prime Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Blaxel
Prime Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Prime Sandboxesdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Blaxel: Pay as you go
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Platform
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Blaxel:
- Prime Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Blaxel:
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Blaxel
Prime Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.083
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.166
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.331
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Blaxel fits when
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, MCP or Claude Code.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Prime Sandboxes fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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