OpenPond Sandboxes vs Tenki Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Tenki Sandbox costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Tenki Sandbox runs full VMs.
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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
Tenki Sandbox
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time ($50 at sign-up, $50 when you add a payment method)
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
Tenki Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time ($50 at sign-up, $50 when you add a payment method)
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Tenki Sandbox: Full VM
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Tenki Sandboxtenki
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time ($50 at sign-up, $50 when you add a payment method)
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Tenki Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Tenki Sandbox: Full VM
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Tenki Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Tenki Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Tenki Sandbox: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Tenki Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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.
Tenki Sandbox fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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