Depot Agent Sandboxes vs PandaStack Sandbox

PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Depot Agent Sandboxes runs containers. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Depot Agent Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
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

1 field differs. The rest are the same or not listed.

Depot Agent Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
Isolation
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Container
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

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

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Container
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Depot Agent Sandboxes:
PandaStack Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Depot Agent Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Depot Agent Sandboxes fits when

  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

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, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
  • You need snapshots.

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