Modal vs Prime Sandboxes
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.
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Prime Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
Prime Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Modalmodal
Prime Sandboxesdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Modal:
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- Prime Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
Prime Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.
Prime Sandboxes fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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