PandaStack Sandbox vs Runta
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Runta costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Runta runs full VMs.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
Runta
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Runta: $0.0504
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Runta: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Runta: $50 free credit
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Runta: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Runta: Per second
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Runta: Full VM
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Runta: OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Runtarunta
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Runta: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Runta: $0.0162
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Runta: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Runta: $50 free credit
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Runta: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Runta: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Runta: Not listed
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Runta: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Runta: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Runta: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Runta: Full VM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Runta: Not listed
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Runta:
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Runta:
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Runta: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Runta: OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- Runta: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- Runta: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Runta
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- Runta: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- Runta: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- Runta: $0.331
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 Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Runta fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want the larger free credit: $50 against $5.40.
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