CreateOS Sandbox vs OpenPond Sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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CreateOS Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Starting credit of 500 credits
- 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.
CreateOS Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- CreateOS Sandbox: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
CreateOS Sandboxcreateos
OpenPond Sandboxesopenpond
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- CreateOS Sandbox: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- CreateOS Sandbox: No
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- CreateOS Sandbox: Claude Code
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
CreateOS Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
CreateOS Sandbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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