OpenPond Sandboxes vs Zipbox
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs 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
Zipbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
Zipbox
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Zipbox: No
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
OpenPond Sandboxesopenpond
Zipboxzipbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Zipbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Zipbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- Zipbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Zipbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- Zipbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- Zipbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- Zipbox: $0.027
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Zipbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use MCP, Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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