OpenPond Sandboxes vs Sailboxes

OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Sailboxes runs full VMs 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

Sailboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

OpenPond Sandboxes
Sailboxes
vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
Isolation
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Sailboxes: Full VM
SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Sailboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: No limit
Idle stop
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Sailboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: 8 vCPU · 256 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Sailboxes: Full VM
GPU
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Sailboxes:
Pause and resume
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Sailboxes:

Developer

SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

OpenPond Sandboxes
Sailboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
Sailboxes: $0.031
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
Sailboxes: $0.062
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Sailboxes: $0.124

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

OpenPond Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Sailboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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