InstaVM vs Prized Sandboxes
InstaVM costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. InstaVM runs Firecracker microVMs. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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InstaVM
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
Prized Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
InstaVM
Prized Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Concurrent sandboxes
- InstaVM: Up to 100
- Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Prized Sandboxesprized
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- InstaVM: Per second
- Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- InstaVM: Up to 100
- Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: No
- Snapshots
- InstaVM:
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- InstaVM:
- Prized Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Integrations
- InstaVM: Claude Code
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
InstaVM
Prized Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.083
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.166
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.331
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.260
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
InstaVM fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the larger free credit: $50 against $30.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Prized Sandboxes fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.130 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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