DigitalOcean MicroVMs vs OpenPond Sandboxes
DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
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
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Idle stop
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.078 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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