BoxLite Cloud vs Prime Sandboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Prime Sandboxes:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Prime Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Prime Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need pause and resume.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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