Islo Sandboxes vs PandaStack Sandbox

Islo Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Islo Sandboxes runs microVMs. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Islo Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Starting credit, no card required
Max session
Not listed

PandaStack Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$5.40 usage credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Islo Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
RAM, per GiB-hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Free tier
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Paid plan from
Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Islo Sandboxes: Per second
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Isolation
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
RAM, per GiB-hour
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Free tier
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Paid plan from
Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Islo Sandboxes: Per second
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Islo Sandboxes:
PandaStack Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Islo Sandboxes:
PandaStack Sandbox:

Developer

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

Trust

License
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Islo Sandboxes: Agent computers run in your VPC.
PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Islo Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Islo Sandboxes: $0.150
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Islo Sandboxes: $0.300
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Islo Sandboxes: $0.600
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Islo Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.

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 want the lower list price: $0.173 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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