Brimble Sandboxes vs PandaStack Sandbox

PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Brimble Sandboxes

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

PandaStack Sandbox

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

What is different

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

Brimble Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota (1 GiB on Free, 100 GiB on Pro, 2.5 TiB on Team). Hibernated state is free for now
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota (1 GiB on Free, 100 GiB on Pro, 2.5 TiB on Team). Hibernated state is free for now
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You use Claude Code.

PandaStack Sandbox fits when

  • A session must run longer than 6 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 or the Vercel AI SDK.

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