PandaStack Sandbox vs Railway Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
Railway Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 trial credit for 30 days
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
Railway Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Railway Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Railway Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- Railway Sandboxes: $0.833
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.173 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Railway Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
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