PandaStack Sandbox vs RemoteHost
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
RemoteHost
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial
- Max session
- 72 hours
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
RemoteHost
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- RemoteHost: Included
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- RemoteHost: Free
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- RemoteHost: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
RemoteHostremotehost
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- RemoteHost: Included
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- RemoteHost: Free
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- RemoteHost:
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- RemoteHost:
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- RemoteHost: MCP
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
RemoteHost
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- RemoteHost: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 72 hours.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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