MIOSA vs Prime Sandboxes

MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

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.

MIOSA
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Max session
MIOSA: 24 hours
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Isolation
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Prime Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
MIOSA: Per second
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
MIOSA: 24 hours
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
MIOSA: MCP
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
MIOSA: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

MIOSA
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
MIOSA: $0.075
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
MIOSA: $0.149
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
MIOSA: $0.298
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

MIOSA fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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