Prime Sandboxes vs Runloop
Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit. Runloop runs microVMs.
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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.
Prime Sandboxes
Runloop
- vCPU, per hour
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- SDKs
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Prime Sandboxes:
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Prime Sandboxes
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
- Runloop: $0.634
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Prime Sandboxes fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Runloop fits when
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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