OpenPond Sandboxes vs Smol Machines
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Smol Machines costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Smol Machines runs microVMs.
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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
Smol Machines
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
Smol Machines
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Smol Machines: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Smol Machines: $0.0162
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Smol Machines: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Smol Machinessmolmachines
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Smol Machines: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Smol Machines: $0.0162
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Smol Machines: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Smol Machines: No
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Smol Machines:
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Smol Machines:
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Smol Machines: MCP
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- Smol Machines: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Smol Machines
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- Smol Machines: $0.082
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- Smol Machines: $0.165
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- Smol Machines: $0.330
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.
Smol Machines fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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