Prime Sandboxes vs Railway Sandboxes

Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Prime Sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Paid plan from
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Prime Sandboxes:
Railway Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Prime Sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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