Lizard Sandboxes vs PandaStack Sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Lizard Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Max session
- No limit
PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Lizard Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- SDKs
- Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Lizard Sandboxeslizard
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Lizard Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Lizard Sandboxes fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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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