Freestyle VMs vs OpenPond Sandboxes
Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs and offers GPUs. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- 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
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Freestyle VMs
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Isolation
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Freestyle VMs:
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Freestyle VMs:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Freestyle VMs:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Freestyle VMs
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Freestyle VMs fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.132 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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