OpenPond Sandboxes vs PandaStack Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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OpenPond Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Max session
- Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota (1 GiB on Free, 100 GiB on Pro, 2.5 TiB on Team). Hibernated state is free for now
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
OpenPond Sandboxesopenpond
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota (1 GiB on Free, 100 GiB on Pro, 2.5 TiB on Team). Hibernated state is free for now
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- 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 want the lower list price: $0.173 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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