Prime Sandboxes vs Sandbox as a Service
Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Prime Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Prime Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Billing
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Isolation
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- SDKs
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Prime Sandboxesdocs
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Prime Sandboxes:
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Prime Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Prime Sandboxes fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
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