Novita Sandbox vs OpenPond Sandboxes
Novita Sandbox costs $0.03528 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Novita Sandbox limits a session to 3 hours. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Novita Sandbox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $100 promotional credit after a setup survey, no card
- Max session
- 3 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
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Novita Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit after a setup survey, no card
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Novita Sandbox: Up to 100
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- SDKs
- Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit after a setup survey, no card
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Novita Sandbox: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Novita Sandbox: 3 hours
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Novita Sandbox: Up to 100
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Novita Sandbox:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Novita Sandbox:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Novita Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Novita Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Novita Sandbox: $0.058
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Novita Sandbox: $0.117
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Novita Sandbox: $0.233
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Novita Sandbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use Claude Code or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.117 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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