Cua Fleets vs PandaStack Sandbox

Cua Fleets costs $0.044625 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Cua Fleets runs gVisor. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Cua Fleets

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

PandaStack Sandbox

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

What is different

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

Cua Fleets
PandaStack Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Cua Fleets: Free
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Billing
Cua Fleets: Per second
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Cua Fleets: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
Cua Fleets: gVisor
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Pause and resume
Cua Fleets: No
PandaStack Sandbox:
SDKs
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Cua Fleets: Free
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Free tier
Cua Fleets: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Paid plan from
Cua Fleets: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Cua Fleets: Per second
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Cua Fleets: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
Cua Fleets: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
Largest sandbox
Cua Fleets: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Cua Fleets: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500

Platform

Isolation
Cua Fleets: gVisor
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Cua Fleets: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Cua Fleets: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Cua Fleets: No
PandaStack Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Cua Fleets: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Cua Fleets: Your AWS, Google Cloud, or Modal account
PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Cua Fleets
PandaStack Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Cua Fleets: $0.089
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Cua Fleets: $0.179
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Cua Fleets: $0.357
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Cua Fleets fits when

  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2.

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 or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.173 against $0.179 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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