AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs OpenPond Sandboxes
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 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
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot write $0.0038 per GB. Snapshot read $0.00155 per GB.
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot write $0.0038 per GB. Snapshot read $0.00155 per GB.
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.238 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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