Phonebox vs Prime Sandboxes

Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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Phonebox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$2 starter credit, one time, no card
Max session
3 hours

Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Phonebox
Prime Sandboxes
Billing
Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
Phonebox: 3 hours
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Concurrent sandboxes
Phonebox: Up to 5
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
SDKs
Phonebox: TypeScript
Prime Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Phonebox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Phonebox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Phonebox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Phonebox: 3 hours
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Phonebox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Phonebox: Up to 5
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

Isolation
Phonebox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Phonebox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Phonebox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Phonebox:
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Phonebox: TypeScript
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Phonebox: MCP
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Phonebox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Phonebox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Phonebox
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Phonebox fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You need pause and resume.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 3 hours.
  • You need snapshots.

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