Oblien Workspace vs OpenPond Sandboxes
Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Oblien Workspace
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free tier, no credit 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.
Oblien Workspace
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Oblien Workspace: $0.03
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Oblien Workspace: $0.008
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- SDKs
- Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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OpenPond Sandboxesopenpond
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Oblien Workspace: $0.03
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Oblien Workspace: $0.008
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Oblien Workspace: No limit
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Oblien Workspace: No
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Oblien Workspace:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Oblien Workspace:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Oblien Workspace: MCP
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Oblien Workspace
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Oblien Workspace: $0.046
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Oblien Workspace: $0.092
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Oblien Workspace: $0.184
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Oblien Workspace fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.092 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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