Novita Sandbox vs PandaStack Sandbox
Novita Sandbox costs $0.03528 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Novita Sandbox limits a session to 24 hours. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Novita Sandbox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $100 promotional credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
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.
Novita Sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Novita Sandbox: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- Novita Sandbox: 24 hours
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Novita Sandbox: Up to 100
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- SDKs
- Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Novita Sandbox: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Novita Sandbox: 24 hours
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Novita Sandbox: Up to 100
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Novita Sandbox:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Novita Sandbox:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Novita Sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Novita Sandbox: $0.058
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Novita Sandbox: $0.117
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Novita Sandbox: $0.233
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
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 want the lower list price: $0.117 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want the larger free credit: $100 against $5.40.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- 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 the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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