Namespace Devboxes vs Prized Sandboxes

Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Namespace Devboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
30-day free trial
Max session
Not listed

Prized Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$30 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Namespace Devboxes
Prized Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Billing
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Namespace Devboxes: Up to 50
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Isolation
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Prized Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Namespace Devboxes: Up to 50
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: No
Snapshots
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Namespace Devboxes:
Prized Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript, Go
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Namespace Devboxes: Claude Code
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Namespace Devboxes
Prized Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Namespace Devboxes: $0.240
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Namespace Devboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.130 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Prized Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 32 vCPU · 64 GiB.

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