PandaStack Sandbox vs Smol Machines
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Smol Machines costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Smol Machines runs microVMs.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
Smol Machines
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
Smol Machines
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Smol Machines: $0.05
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Smol Machines: Pay as you go
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Smol Machines: No
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Smol Machinessmolmachines
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Smol Machines: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Smol Machines: $0.0162
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Smol Machines: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Smol Machines: No
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Smol Machines: No
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Smol Machines:
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Smol Machines: Not listed
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- Smol Machines: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- Smol Machines: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Smol Machines
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- Smol Machines: $0.082
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- Smol Machines: $0.165
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- Smol Machines: $0.330
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
- You need snapshots.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need GDPR.
Smol Machines fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want the larger free credit: $100 against $5.40.
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