CreateOS Sandbox vs PandaStack Sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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CreateOS Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Starting credit of 500 credits
- Max session
- No limit
PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
CreateOS Sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Billing
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- CreateOS Sandbox: No
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
CreateOS Sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
CreateOS Sandbox fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.
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.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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