boxd vs Prized Sandboxes
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- 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.
boxd
Prized Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
- Max session
- boxd: No limit
- Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: No limit
- Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- boxd: After 240 minutes
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: No
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- Prized Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code, MCP
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
Prized Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.260
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boxd fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You use Claude Code or MCP.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Prized Sandboxes fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.130 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 32 GiB.
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