Prized Sandboxes vs Sandbox as a Service
Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Prized Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Prized Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Free tier
- Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Billing
- Prized Sandboxes: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Prized Sandboxesprized
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Prized Sandboxes: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- Prized Sandboxes: No
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- Prized Sandboxes:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Prized Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.260
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.130 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
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