BoxCompute vs Prized Sandboxes

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and has no session limit. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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BoxCompute

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
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.

BoxCompute
Prized Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
BoxCompute: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Prized Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: No
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Prized Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
BoxCompute: Claude Code
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Prized Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Prized Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.130 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want the larger free credit: $30 against $10.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB.

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