Namespace Devboxes vs OpenPond Sandboxes
Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Namespace Devboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- 30-day free trial
- Max session
- 24 hours
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.
Namespace Devboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Namespace Devboxes: Up to 50
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Isolation
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript, Go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Namespace Devboxes: 24 hours
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Namespace Devboxes: Up to 50
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Namespace Devboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript, Go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Namespace Devboxes: Claude Code, MCP
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Namespace Devboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.240
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Namespace Devboxes fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use Claude Code or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need snapshots.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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