OpenPond Sandboxes vs Watasu

OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Watasu 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

Watasu

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

OpenPond Sandboxes
Watasu
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Watasu: Free Basic plan
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Watasu: Up to 100
SDKs
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Watasu: Python, TypeScript, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
Watasu: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Watasu: Not listed
Storage
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
Free tier
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Watasu: Free Basic plan
Paid plan from
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Watasu: Not listed
Billing
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Watasu: Per second

Limits

Max session
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu: 24 hours
Idle stop
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Watasu: Not listed
Largest sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Watasu: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
BYOC
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Watasu: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

OpenPond Sandboxes
Watasu
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
Watasu: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
Watasu: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Watasu: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

OpenPond Sandboxes fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Watasu fits when

  • You use MCP or Claude Code.

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