OpenPond Sandboxes vs Solari

OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 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

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

OpenPond Sandboxes
Solari
vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Isolation
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Solari:
Pause and resume
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

OpenPond Sandboxes
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Solari: $0.342

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Solari fits when

  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.171 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need HIPAA.

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