PandaStack Sandbox vs StateSet Sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor 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
StateSet Sandbox
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- $25 trial credit, no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
StateSet Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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StateSet Sandboxsandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- 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
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- StateSet Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
StateSet Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.028
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.
StateSet Sandbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want the larger free credit: $25 against $5.40.
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