Prized Sandboxes vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Prized Sandboxes

Linux microVMs in beta that your code creates, runs commands in, pauses, forks and deletes.

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

Visit site Prized Sandboxes profile

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Isolated microVMs for AI agents that fork from a saved snapshot, part of SF Compute Autoresearch.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: None
Max session: Not listed

Visit site SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

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Prized Sandboxes

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: Prized Sandboxes: $0.04; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier: Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Billing: Prized Sandboxes: Per second; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Largest sandbox: Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Prized Sandboxes: Up to 50; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096
Isolation: Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Prized Sandboxesprized.dev/pricing

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxesautoresearch.sfcompute.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Prized Sandboxes: $0.04; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier: Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from: Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: Prized Sandboxes: Per second; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only

Limits

Max session: Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop: Prized Sandboxes: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Prized Sandboxes: Up to 50; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Platform

Isolation: Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU: Prized Sandboxes: No; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots: Prized Sandboxes: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
Pause and resume: Prized Sandboxes:; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs: Prized Sandboxes: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations: Prized Sandboxes: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: Prized Sandboxes: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: Prized Sandboxes: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Prized Sandboxes

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Prized Sandboxes: $0.065; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Prized Sandboxes: $0.130; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Prized Sandboxes: $0.260; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Prized Sandboxes fits when

You want the lower list price: $0.130 against $0.183 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You want to start without paying.
You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes fits when

You use MCP or Claude Code.
You need snapshots.
You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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