Northflank Sandboxes vs OpenPond Sandboxes
Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Northflank Sandboxes runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Northflank Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Cloud Hypervisor microVM
- Free tier
- Free Sandbox plan, up to $20 of resources a month, no card
- Max session
- No limit
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
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Northflank Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Northflank Sandboxes: Persistent disk $0.11657 per GiB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is free.
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Northflank Sandboxes: Free Sandbox plan, up to $20 of resources a month, no card
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Isolation
- Northflank Sandboxes: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Northflank Sandboxes: Persistent disk $0.11657 per GiB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is free.
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Northflank Sandboxes: Free Sandbox plan, up to $20 of resources a month, no card
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Northflank Sandboxes: No limit
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Northflank Sandboxes: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Northflank Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Northflank Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.067 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.
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