boxd vs OpenPond Sandboxes
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- 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
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxd
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Idle stop
- boxd: After 240 minutes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: No limit
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- boxd: After 240 minutes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code, MCP
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boxd fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use Claude Code or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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