Lizard Sandboxes vs OpenPond Sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Lizard Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Max session
- No limit
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.
Lizard Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- SDKs
- Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code, MCP, LangChain
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Lizard Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Lizard Sandboxes fits when
- You use Claude Code, MCP or LangChain.
- You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need GDPR.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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