PandaStack Sandbox vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- None
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
- 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
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxesautoresearch
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
- 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
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366
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, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.173 against $0.183 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want to start without paying.
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.
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