Lizard Sandboxes vs Prime Sandboxes

Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Lizard Sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Prime Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Lizard Sandboxes:
Prime Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Lizard Sandboxes:
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Lizard Sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.090 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.

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