Deno Sandbox vs Prime Sandboxes

Deno Sandbox costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Deno Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 30 minutes. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

Updated

Deno Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
30 minutes

Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Deno Sandbox
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Deno Sandbox: $0.10
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Deno Sandbox: $0.025
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Deno Sandbox: Volumes $0.20 per GiB-month after plan allowance. Volumes 300 MB to 20 GB.
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
Deno Sandbox: $20 / month
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Deno Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
Deno Sandbox: 30 minutes
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Largest sandbox
Deno Sandbox: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Deno Sandbox: Up to 20
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Isolation
Deno Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Deno Sandbox: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
Prime Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Deno Sandbox: $0.10
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Deno Sandbox: $0.025
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Deno Sandbox: Volumes $0.20 per GiB-month after plan allowance. Volumes 300 MB to 20 GB.
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Deno Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Deno Sandbox: $20 / month
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Deno Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Deno Sandbox: 30 minutes
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Deno Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Deno Sandbox: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Deno Sandbox: Up to 20
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

Isolation
Deno Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Deno Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Deno Sandbox:
Prime Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Deno Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Deno Sandbox: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Deno Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Deno Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Deno Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Deno Sandbox
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Deno Sandbox: $0.150
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Deno Sandbox: $0.300
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Deno Sandbox: $0.600
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Deno Sandbox fits when

  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 30 minutes.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 4 GiB.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related