PandaStack Sandbox vs Runtime
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
Runtime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
Runtime
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota (1 GiB on Free, 100 GiB on Pro, 2.5 TiB on Team). Hibernated state is free for now
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Runtime: Up to 200
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota (1 GiB on Free, 100 GiB on Pro, 2.5 TiB on Team). Hibernated state is free for now
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Runtime: No limit
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Runtime: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Runtime: No
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Runtime:
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Runtime:
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- Runtime: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- Runtime: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Runtime
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- Runtime: $0.040
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- Runtime: $0.080
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- Runtime: $0.160
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 need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need GDPR.
Runtime fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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