PandaStack Sandbox vs Solari

PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs 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

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

11 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

PandaStack Sandbox
Solari
vCPU, per hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Solari: $0.0165
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
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Solari: $3 credit every month
Billing
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Solari: Per second
Max session
PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Solari: Up to 10
Isolation
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Solari: $0.0165
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
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
PandaStack Sandbox:
Solari:
Pause and resume
PandaStack Sandbox:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

PandaStack Sandbox
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
Solari: $0.342

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

PandaStack Sandbox fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • 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 larger free credit: $5.40 against $3.

Solari fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.171 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need HIPAA.

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