OpenPond Sandboxes vs Shellbox
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs 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
Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Shellboxshellbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- Shellbox: $0.040
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.
Shellbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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