boxd vs Prime Sandboxes

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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boxd

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 credit with a payment method
Max session
Not listed

Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boxd
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Prime Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boxd: Per second
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
Prime Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boxd:
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • 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 $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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