Buddy Sandboxes vs PandaStack Sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Buddy Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $1 of usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
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.
Buddy Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
- 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
- Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
- 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
- Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Buddy Sandboxes:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Buddy Sandboxes:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Buddy Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
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 Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.086 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- 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.
- You want the larger free credit: $5.40 against $1.
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