Cloudflare Sandbox vs PandaStack Sandbox

Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

PandaStack Sandbox

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

What is different

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

Cloudflare Sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Paid plan from
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Paid plan from
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500

Platform

Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Cloudflare Sandbox:
PandaStack Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Cloudflare Sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

PandaStack Sandbox fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.173 against $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want to start without paying.

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