OpenPond Sandboxes vs Sandock
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Sandock runs containers and limits a session to 8 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
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
Sandock
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Sandock: None
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Sandock: $5 / month
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Sandock: After 30 minutes
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Sandock: Up to 150
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Sandock: Container
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
OpenPond Sandboxesopenpond
Sandocksandock
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Sandock: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Sandock: Not listed
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Sandock: Not listed
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Sandock: None
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Sandock: $5 / month
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Sandock: Not listed
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandock: 8 hours
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Sandock: After 30 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandock: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Sandock: Up to 150
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Sandock: Container
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandock: Not listed
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Sandock: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Sandock:
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Sandock: TypeScript
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandock: MCP
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandock: MIT
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- Sandock: Private / VPC deployment on Enterprise
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Sandock
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- Sandock: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- Sandock: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- Sandock: Not listed
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 want to start without paying.
- You need snapshots.
Sandock fits when
- You want an open-source platform (MIT) that you can self-host.
- You use MCP.
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