Freestyle VMs vs Prized Sandboxes
Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs and offers GPUs. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- Not listed
Prized Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Freestyle VMs
Prized Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Largest sandbox
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
- Isolation
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Freestyle VMs:
- Prized Sandboxes: No
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Prized Sandboxesprized
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
- Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Freestyle VMs:
- Prized Sandboxes: No
- Snapshots
- Freestyle VMs:
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Freestyle VMs:
- Prized Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Integrations
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Freestyle VMs
Prized Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.260
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Freestyle VMs fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
Prized 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: $0.130 against $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 32 vCPU · 64 GiB.
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