Prime Sandboxes vs Sandbox0

Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.

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Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Prime Sandboxes
Sandbox0
vCPU, per hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Sandbox0: Free
Billing
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Sandbox0: Memory only
Concurrent sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Sandbox0: Up to 20
Isolation
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
Sandbox0: gVisor
SDKs
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Sandbox0: Free
Free tier
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Paid plan from
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Sandbox0: Memory only

Limits

Max session
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Sandbox0: No limit
Idle stop
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Sandbox0: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Sandbox0: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
Sandbox0: gVisor
GPU
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Snapshots
Prime Sandboxes:
Sandbox0:
Pause and resume
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0:

Developer

SDKs
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Prime Sandboxes
Sandbox0
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
Sandbox0: $0.030
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
Sandbox0: $0.060
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
Sandbox0: $0.120

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.

Sandbox0 fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.090 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

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