Modal vs OpenPond Sandboxes
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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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
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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OpenPond Sandboxesopenpond
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Modal:
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code, LangChain
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code or LangChain.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.238 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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