AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs PandaStack Sandbox
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.173 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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