OpenPond Sandboxes vs Shardflux
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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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
Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
Shardflux
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Shardflux: Free
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Shardflux: After 5 minutes
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Shardflux: Up to 200
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Shardflux: Free
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Shardflux: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Shardflux: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux:
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Shardflux:
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Shardflux:
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- Shardflux: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Shardflux
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- Shardflux: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- Shardflux: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- Shardflux: $0.280
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.
Shardflux fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use Claude Code, MCP, the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
- You want the lower list price: $0.140 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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