Prized Sandboxes vs Sailboxes

Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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Prized Sandboxes

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

Sailboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Prized Sandboxes
Sailboxes
vCPU, per hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Max session
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Sailboxes: No limit
Largest sandbox
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Sailboxes: 8 vCPU · 256 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
Isolation
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Sailboxes: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Sailboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Sailboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Sailboxes: 8 vCPU · 256 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Prized Sandboxes
Sailboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
Sailboxes: $0.031
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
Sailboxes: $0.062
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260
Sailboxes: $0.124

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Prized Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the larger free credit: $30 against $5.

Sailboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.130 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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