OpenPond Sandboxes vs Runloop
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Runloop runs microVMs.
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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
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
Runloop
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
OpenPond Sandboxesopenpond
Runlooprunloop
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- Runloop: $0.634
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.238 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Runloop fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP or Claude Code.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.
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