Bunny Sandbox vs OpenPond Sandboxes

Bunny Sandbox costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Bunny Sandbox runs gVisor and has no session limit. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Bunny Sandbox

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
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

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

Bunny Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Bunny Sandbox: $0.02
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Bunny Sandbox: $0.005
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Storage
Bunny Sandbox: $0.10 per GB per month on the allocated 10 GB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
Bunny Sandbox: Pay as you go
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Billing
Bunny Sandbox: Active CPU time only
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Isolation
Bunny Sandbox: gVisor
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Bunny Sandbox: JavaScript / TypeScript
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Bunny Sandbox: $0.02
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Bunny Sandbox: $0.005
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Storage
Bunny Sandbox: $0.10 per GB per month on the allocated 10 GB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Paid plan from
Bunny Sandbox: Pay as you go
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Billing
Bunny Sandbox: Active CPU time only
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Bunny Sandbox: No limit
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Bunny Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Bunny Sandbox: JavaScript / TypeScript
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Bunny Sandbox: Claude Code
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Bunny Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Bunny Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Bunny Sandbox: $0.030
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Bunny Sandbox: $0.060
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Bunny Sandbox: $0.120
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Bunny Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

OpenPond Sandboxes fits when

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

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