microsandbox cloud vs OpenPond Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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microsandbox cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- 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
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
microsandbox cloud
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Concurrent sandboxes
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Isolation
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Pause and resume
- microsandbox cloud: No
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- SDKs
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- microsandbox cloud:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- microsandbox cloud: No
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- microsandbox cloud: Claude Code, MCP
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- microsandbox cloud: By evaluation, contact us
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
microsandbox cloud
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: $0.082
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: $0.165
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: $0.330
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
microsandbox cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use Claude Code or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You need pause and resume.
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