BoxCompute vs OpenPond Sandboxes
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and has no session limit. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- No limit
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
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $5 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 30 minutes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Up to 8
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: No
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxComputeboxcompute
OpenPond Sandboxesopenpond
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $5 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: No limit
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 30 minutes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 4 vCPU · 16 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Up to 8
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: No
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Claude Code, MCP
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxCompute fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use Claude Code or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need snapshots.
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