Containarium Cloud vs Prime Sandboxes

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

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Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
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.

Containarium Cloud
Prime Sandboxes
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Containarium Cloud
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.080
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Containarium Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.090 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need ISO 27001.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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