OpenPond Sandboxes vs Perplexity Sandbox

OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Perplexity Sandbox runs containers.

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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

Perplexity Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

2 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

OpenPond Sandboxes
Perplexity Sandbox
Isolation
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Perplexity Sandbox: Container
SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Limits

Max session
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Perplexity Sandbox: Container
GPU
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Pause and resume
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

OpenPond Sandboxes
Perplexity Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

OpenPond Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Perplexity Sandbox fits when

  • You need SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and GDPR.

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