Buddy Sandboxes vs OpenPond Sandboxes
Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Buddy Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $1 of usage credit every month
- 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
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Buddy Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Isolation
- Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Buddy Sandboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Buddy Sandboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Buddy Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Buddy Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.086 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.
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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