Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs OpenPond Sandboxes

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox costs $0.017856 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

OpenPond Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.017856
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.008928
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.00025308 per GiB-hour after 15 free GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Concurrent sandboxes
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Up to 300
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.017856
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.008928
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.00025308 per GiB-hour after 15 free GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Paid plan from
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: 24 hours
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Up to 300
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
OpenPond Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.036
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.071
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.143
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.071 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

OpenPond Sandboxes fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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