AgentBay vs PandaStack Sandbox
AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
11 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AgentBay
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- AgentBay: $0.027
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AgentBay: $0.0113
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- AgentBay: Free Basic plan
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- AgentBay: Pay as you go
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- AgentBay: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AgentBay: Up to 200
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Isolation
- AgentBay: Container
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- AgentBay: MCP
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AgentBay: $0.027
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AgentBay: $0.0113
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- AgentBay: Free Basic plan
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- AgentBay: Pay as you go
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- AgentBay: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- AgentBay: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- AgentBay: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AgentBay: Up to 200
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- AgentBay: Container
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- AgentBay: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AgentBay: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- AgentBay: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- AgentBay: MCP
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- AgentBay: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- AgentBay: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AgentBay
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AgentBay: $0.050
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AgentBay: $0.099
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AgentBay: $0.198
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
AgentBay fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You need snapshots.
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