OpenPond Sandboxes vs Sendblue Sandboxes

OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

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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

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

OpenPond Sandboxes
Sendblue Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Billing
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Idle stop
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5
Isolation
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Pause and resume
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
GPU
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Developer

SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

OpenPond Sandboxes
Sendblue Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 want the lower list price: $0.238 against $0.330 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

Sendblue Sandboxes fits when

  • You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.

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