PandaStack Sandbox vs Sandbox as a Service
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
11 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
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 24 hours.
- 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 or the Vercel AI SDK.
Sandbox as a Service 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: $0.090 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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