InstaVM vs PandaStack Sandbox
InstaVM costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. InstaVM runs Firecracker microVMs. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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InstaVM
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
InstaVM
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Storage
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- InstaVM: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Concurrent sandboxes
- InstaVM: Up to 100
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- InstaVM: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- InstaVM: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- InstaVM: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- InstaVM: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- InstaVM: Up to 100
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- InstaVM: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- InstaVM:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- InstaVM:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- InstaVM: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- InstaVM: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- InstaVM: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
InstaVM
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.083
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.166
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.331
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
InstaVM fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want the larger free credit: $50 against $5.40.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- 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 the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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