OpenPond Sandboxes vs Runta

OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Runta costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker 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

Runta

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$50 free credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

OpenPond Sandboxes
Runta
vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
Runta: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Runta: $0.0162
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Runta: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Runta: $50 free credit
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Runta: Pay as you go
SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Runta: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
Runta: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Runta: $0.0162
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Runta: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Runta: $50 free credit
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Runta: Pay as you go
Billing
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Runta: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Runta: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Runta: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code

Trust

License
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Runta: Not listed
BYOC
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Runta: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

OpenPond Sandboxes
Runta
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
Runta: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
Runta: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Runta: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

OpenPond Sandboxes fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Runta fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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