Brimble Sandboxes vs OpenPond Sandboxes

OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

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

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

Brimble Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Brimble Sandboxes:
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Brimble Sandboxes:
OpenPond Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You use MCP or Claude Code.

OpenPond Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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