OpenPond Sandboxes vs Phonebox
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.
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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
Phonebox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Max session
- 3 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
Phonebox
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Phonebox: Up to 5
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Phoneboxphonebox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Phonebox: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Phonebox: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Phonebox: Not listed
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Phonebox:
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Phonebox: MCP
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- Phonebox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Phonebox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- Phonebox: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- Phonebox: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- Phonebox: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You need snapshots.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Phonebox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use MCP.
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