Declaw vs OpenPond Sandboxes

Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Declaw

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
72 hours

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.

Declaw
OpenPond Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Billing
Declaw: Per second
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Declaw: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Declaw: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Declaw:
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Declaw:
OpenPond Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Declaw: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Declaw: Enterprise on-prem in your cloud account or data center. The Declaw team runs it.
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Declaw
OpenPond Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Declaw: $0.083
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Declaw: $0.166
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Declaw: $0.331
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Declaw fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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