Lizard Sandboxes vs Prized Sandboxes

Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Lizard Sandboxes

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

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.

Lizard Sandboxes
Prized Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Prized Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Lizard Sandboxes
Prized Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.130 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

Prized 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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