CreateOS Sandbox vs Prime Sandboxes

CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

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.

CreateOS Sandbox
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Isolation
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Prime Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

Isolation
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
CreateOS Sandbox:
Prime Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
CreateOS Sandbox:
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CreateOS Sandbox
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.119 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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