Prized Sandboxes vs Railway Sandboxes

Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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Prized Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$30 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Prized Sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Free tier
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Prized Sandboxes: No
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Prized Sandboxes:
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Prized Sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Prized Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.130 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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