OpenPond Sandboxes vs Vercel Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Vercel Sandbox costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Vercel Sandbox runs Firecracker 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
Vercel Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 5 CPU-hours every month
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
Vercel Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Vercel Sandbox: Snapshots $0.08 per GB-month. Drives $0.05 per GB-month in iad1, plus reads and writes. Hobby includes 15 GB of each.
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Vercel Sandboxvercel
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Vercel Sandbox: Snapshots $0.08 per GB-month. Drives $0.05 per GB-month in iad1, plus reads and writes. Hobby includes 15 GB of each.
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Vercel Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Vercel Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Vercel Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.170
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.341
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.682
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.238 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Vercel Sandbox fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code or MCP.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and GDPR.
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