OpenPond Sandboxes vs Runtime
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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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
Runtime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
Runtime
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Runtime: Up to 200
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runtime: No limit
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Runtime: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runtime: No
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Runtime:
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Runtime:
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runtime: Not listed
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- Runtime: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Runtime
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- Runtime: $0.040
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- Runtime: $0.080
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- Runtime: $0.160
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Runtime fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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