boxes.dev vs Prized Sandboxes

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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boxes.dev

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Max session
Not listed

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.

boxes.dev
Prized Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Prized Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
boxes.dev: After 5 minutes
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: No
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Prized Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
boxes.dev: Claude Code
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Teams plan
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Prized Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Prized Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.130 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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