Blaxel vs Prized Sandboxes

Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Blaxel

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Credit of up to $200
Max session
No limit

Prized Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$30 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Blaxel
Prized Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Blaxel: Included
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Blaxel: $0.0414
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Billing
Blaxel: Memory only
Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
Blaxel: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Isolation
Blaxel: MicroVM
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Blaxel: Included
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Blaxel: $0.0414
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Blaxel: Pay as you go
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Blaxel: Memory only
Prized Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Blaxel: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Blaxel: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Blaxel: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Blaxel: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Blaxel: MicroVM
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Blaxel: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: No
Snapshots
Blaxel:
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Blaxel:
Prized Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Blaxel: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC, on request
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Blaxel
Prized Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Blaxel: $0.083
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Blaxel: $0.166
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Blaxel: $0.331
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Blaxel fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code, LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the larger free credit: $200 against $30.
  • You need snapshots.

Prized Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.130 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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