PandaStack Sandbox vs Shardflux
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
Shardflux
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Shardflux: Up to 200
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Shardflux: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Shardflux:
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Shardflux:
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Shardflux:
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- Shardflux: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- Shardflux: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Shardflux
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- Shardflux: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- Shardflux: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- Shardflux: $0.280
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 need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need GDPR.
Shardflux fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.140 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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