HopX vs Prized Sandboxes

HopX costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. HopX runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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HopX

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$200 credit
Max session
No limit

Prized Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$30 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

HopX
Prized Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
HopX: $0.0504
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
HopX: $0.0162
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
HopX: $200 credit
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Max session
HopX: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
HopX: $0.0504
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
HopX: $0.0162
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
HopX: $200 credit
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
HopX: Pay as you go
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
HopX: Per second
Prized Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
HopX: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
HopX: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
HopX: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
HopX: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
HopX: Firecracker microVM
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
HopX: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: No
Snapshots
HopX:
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
HopX:
Prized Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
HopX: Python, JavaScript
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
HopX: MCP
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
HopX: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
HopX: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

HopX
Prized Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
HopX: $0.083
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
HopX: $0.166
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
HopX: $0.331
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

HopX fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the larger free credit: $200 against $30.
  • You need snapshots.

Prized Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.130 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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