EQVPS Sandboxes vs PandaStack Sandbox
EQVPS Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. EQVPS Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 720 hours. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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EQVPS Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $1 sandbox credit, one time
- Max session
- 720 hours
PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
12 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
EQVPS Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota (1 GiB on Free, 100 GiB on Pro, 2.5 TiB on Team). Hibernated state is free for now
- Free tier
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- SDKs
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
EQVPS Sandboxeseqvps
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota (1 GiB on Free, 100 GiB on Pro, 2.5 TiB on Team). Hibernated state is free for now
- Free tier
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- EQVPS Sandboxes:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
EQVPS Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.066
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.132
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.264
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
EQVPS Sandboxes fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.132 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 720 hours.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You want the larger free credit: $5.40 against $1.
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