Prized vs E2B, Daytona and Modal
How Prized sandboxes compare with E2B, Daytona and Modal on isolation, run length, pause and fork, price, free credit and GPUs, each fact from the vendor's own pages, checked October 22, 2026.
Prized sandboxes (beta) are Firecracker microVMs your code creates, pauses with their memory, and forks into live copies, billed per second. The same account has boxes: cloud machines with no time limit, for an agent that needs one computer it keeps coming back to.
At a glance
| Prized | E2B | Daytona | Modal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isolation | Firecracker microVM | Firecracker microVM | Container; VM sandboxes optional | gVisor; VM runtime optional |
| Longest run | 7 days at a time, 24 hours by default; a resume restarts the clock, and you can extend it anytime (60 minutes of running in all on the free tier) | 1 hour on Hobby, 24 hours on Pro; a pause resets it | No limit; stops after 15 idle minutes by default | 24 hours; 5 minutes by default |
| Pause, memory included | Yes, kept until you delete it (30 days after last use on the free tier) | Yes, kept until you delete it | VM sandboxes only | Alpha: a memory snapshot ends the sandbox; restore within 7 days |
| Fork a running sandbox | Yes, memory included | Yes, memory included | VM sandboxes only | Filesystem only, from a snapshot |
| CPU, per vCPU-hour | $0.04 | $0.0504 | $0.0504 | $0.071 (a core is 2 vCPU) |
| Memory, per GB-hour | $0.0125 | $0.0162 per GiB | $0.0162 per GiB | $0.024 per GiB |
| 2 vCPU and 4 GB for an hour | $0.131 | $0.166 | $0.166 | $0.238 |
| Free credit | $30 once, no card | $100 once, no card | $200, no card | $30 a month |
| GPUs | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Regions | US West (Oregon) | US, EU, APAC | US, EU | US, EU, APAC, chosen per sandbox |
| SDKs | None yet; REST API, CLI, and a Python or TypeScript helper | Python, JavaScript | TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, Java | Python; JavaScript and Go in beta |
Prices are pay-as-you-go list prices for a running sandbox, before plans or region surcharges. Prized's hour includes a 10 GB disk (Billing: Sandboxes).
When another one fits better
- A GPU in the sandbox: Daytona or Modal. Prized has GPU boxes in beta, not GPU sandboxes.
- Your own image: E2B templates, Daytona snapshots or Modal images. Prized sandboxes have two fixed templates; run your image with Docker on a box.
- A region outside the US: E2B, Daytona or Modal.
- Your own cloud: E2B or Daytona.
Moving over
- Moving from E2B: the Prized command for each E2B call.
- Moving from Runloop: Runloop is winding down, with support for existing customers through November 13, 2026.
- Boxes or Sandboxes?: which Prized machine fits the job.
Sources
Checked October 22, 2026:
- E2B: pricing, sandbox lifetime, persistence, fork, GPUs, home page (regions, SDKs).
- Daytona: pricing, isolation, sandboxes, Linux VM sandboxes, regions, docs home (SDKs).
- Modal: pricing, sandboxes, snapshots, regions, JavaScript and Go SDKs.
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