OpenPond Sandboxes vs Tensorlake Sandboxes

OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs 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

Tensorlake Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free plan, $0 forever
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

OpenPond Sandboxes
Tensorlake Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Idle stop
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Snapshots
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Tensorlake Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Tensorlake Sandboxes: AWS, GCP, Azure, CoreWeave, Nebius or bare metal

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

OpenPond Sandboxes
Tensorlake Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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