Depot Sandboxes vs OpenPond Sandboxes
Depot Sandboxes costs $0.18 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Depot Sandboxes runs microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Depot Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial, no credit card
- Max session
- 24 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
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Depot Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Depot Sandboxes: $0.18
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Depot Sandboxes: Included
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Free tier
- Depot Sandboxes: 7-day free trial, no credit card
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Depot Sandboxes: $20 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Isolation
- Depot Sandboxes: MicroVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Pause and resume
- Depot Sandboxes: No
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Depot Sandboxes: $0.18
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Depot Sandboxes: Included
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Depot Sandboxes: 7-day free trial, no credit card
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Depot Sandboxes: $20 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Depot Sandboxes: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Depot Sandboxes: 24 hours
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Depot Sandboxes: MicroVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Depot Sandboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Depot Sandboxes: No
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Depot Sandboxes: TypeScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Depot Sandboxes: Claude Code
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Depot Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Depot Sandboxes: $0.180
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Depot Sandboxes: $0.360
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Depot Sandboxes: $0.720
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Depot Sandboxes fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.238 against $0.360 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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