Prime Sandboxes vs StateSet Sandbox

Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

StateSet Sandbox

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$25 trial credit, no card
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Prime Sandboxes
StateSet Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Max session
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Isolation
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
SDKs
Prime Sandboxes: Python
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Storage
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Paid plan from
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
StateSet Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Prime Sandboxes: Python
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Prime Sandboxes
StateSet Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
StateSet Sandbox: $0.028

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Which 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.

StateSet Sandbox fits when

  • You use Claude Code or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.090 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

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