PandaStack Sandbox vs Runloop
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Runloop runs microVMs.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
Runloop
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Runloop: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Runlooprunloop
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- Runloop: $0.634
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.173 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
Runloop fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the larger free credit: $50 against $5.40.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 64 GiB.
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