BoxLite Cloud vs OpenPond Sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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BoxLite Cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
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.
BoxLite Cloud
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Isolation
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Snapshots
- BoxLite Cloud: No
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- SDKs
- BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- BoxLite Cloud: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxLite Cloud: No
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- BoxLite Cloud:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxLite Cloud
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxLite Cloud fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use Claude Code or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You need snapshots.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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