OpenPond Sandboxes vs RemoteHost

OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 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

RemoteHost

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day free trial
Max session
72 hours

What is different

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

OpenPond Sandboxes
RemoteHost
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
RemoteHost: Included
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
RemoteHost: Free
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
RemoteHost: $20 / month
Billing
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
RemoteHost: Up to 2,000

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
RemoteHost: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
RemoteHost: Included
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
RemoteHost: Free
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
RemoteHost: $20 / month
Billing
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
RemoteHost: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
RemoteHost: 72 hours
Idle stop
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
RemoteHost: Not listed
Largest sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
RemoteHost: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
GPU
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
RemoteHost: Not listed
Snapshots
OpenPond Sandboxes:
RemoteHost:
Pause and resume
OpenPond Sandboxes:
RemoteHost:

Developer

SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
RemoteHost: TypeScript
Integrations
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
RemoteHost: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
RemoteHost: Not listed
BYOC
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

RemoteHost fits when

  • You use MCP or Claude Code.

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