BoxCompute vs PandaStack Sandbox
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- 42 hours
PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxComputeboxcompute
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
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 want the larger free credit: $10 against $5.40.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 42 hours.
- 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, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
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