InstaVM vs Prime Sandboxes
InstaVM costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. InstaVM runs Firecracker microVMs. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.
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InstaVM
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- 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.
InstaVM
Prime Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Paid plan from
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Concurrent sandboxes
- InstaVM: Up to 100
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
- Isolation
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- InstaVM: Per second
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- InstaVM: Up to 100
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Platform
- Isolation
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- InstaVM:
- Prime Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- InstaVM:
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
InstaVM
Prime Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.083
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.166
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.331
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
InstaVM fits when
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
Prime Sandboxes fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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