BoxLite Cloud vs Prized Sandboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
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.

BoxLite Cloud
Prized Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Prized Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: No
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Prized Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Prized Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260

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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 use Claude Code or MCP.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $30.

Prized Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.130 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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