Declaw vs PandaStack Sandbox

Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Declaw

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

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.

Declaw
PandaStack Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Declaw: Per second
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, 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
Declaw: $0.0504
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Declaw: Per second
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
Declaw: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Declaw: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Declaw: Deploy in your VPC. Book a call.
PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Declaw
PandaStack Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Declaw: $0.083
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Declaw: $0.166
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Declaw: $0.331
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346

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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 want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $5.40.

PandaStack Sandbox fits when

  • A session must run longer than 72 hours.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use the Vercel AI SDK.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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