Modal vs Prized Sandboxes
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Prized Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
Prized Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Modal:
- Prized Sandboxes: No
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Modalmodal
Prized Sandboxesprized
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Modal:
- Prized Sandboxes: No
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
Prized Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.260
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 or Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Prized Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.130 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
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