boxes.dev vs PandaStack Sandbox

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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boxes.dev

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Max session
Not listed

PandaStack Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$5.40 usage credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

boxes.dev
PandaStack Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
PandaStack Sandbox:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
PandaStack Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
PandaStack Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

PandaStack Sandbox fits when

  • 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 $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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