OpenPond Sandboxes vs Sandbox as a Service
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 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
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
OpenPond Sandboxesopenpond
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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