OpenPond Sandboxes vs StateSet Sandbox

OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor 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

StateSet Sandbox

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$25 trial credit, no card
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

OpenPond Sandboxes
StateSet Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Isolation
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
StateSet Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
GPU
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
OpenPond Sandboxes:
StateSet Sandbox:
Pause and resume
OpenPond Sandboxes:
StateSet Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

OpenPond Sandboxes
StateSet Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
StateSet Sandbox: $0.028

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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 need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

StateSet Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use Claude Code or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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