exe.dev vs Prime Sandboxes

exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. exe.dev runs full VMs. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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exe.dev

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session
Not listed

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.

exe.dev
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
exe.dev: $0.0525
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
exe.dev: Included
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
exe.dev: $15 / month
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
exe.dev: Full VM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
exe.dev: $0.0525
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
exe.dev: Included
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
exe.dev: $15 / month
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
exe.dev: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
exe.dev: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
exe.dev: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

Isolation
exe.dev: Full VM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
exe.dev: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
exe.dev: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
exe.dev: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
exe.dev: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
exe.dev: Claude Code
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
exe.dev: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
exe.dev: Enterprise plan
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

exe.dev
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
exe.dev: $0.053
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
exe.dev: $0.105
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
exe.dev: $0.210
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

exe.dev fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 64 GiB.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.105 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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