CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Prime Sandboxes

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Prime Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Prime Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 720 hours.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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