Prime Sandboxes vs Superserve

Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit. Superserve runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Superserve

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Prime Sandboxes
Superserve
vCPU, per hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Largest sandbox
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Isolation
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
Superserve: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Superserve: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
Paid plan from
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Superserve: Per second

Limits

Max session
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Superserve: No limit
Idle stop
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Superserve: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
Superserve: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
Snapshots
Prime Sandboxes:
Superserve:
Pause and resume
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Superserve:

Developer

SDKs
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Superserve: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
BYOC
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Superserve:

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Prime Sandboxes
Superserve
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
Superserve: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
Superserve: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
Superserve: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 2 GiB.

Superserve fits when

  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, 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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