Namespace Devboxes vs PandaStack Sandbox
Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Namespace Devboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- 30-day free trial
- Max session
- Not listed
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.
Namespace Devboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Idle stop
- Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Namespace Devboxesnamespace
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Namespace Devboxes:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Namespace Devboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.240
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
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 want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- 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 snapshots.
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