PandaStack Sandbox vs tama
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
tama
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- tama: $0.0117
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- tama: $0.0055
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- tama: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- tama: Full VM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
tamatama
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- tama: $0.0117
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- tama: $0.0055
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- tama: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- tama: Not listed
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- tama: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- tama: Not listed
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- tama: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- tama: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- tama: Full VM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- tama:
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- tama:
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- tama:
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- tama: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- tama: Not listed
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- tama: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- tama: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
tama
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- tama: $0.023
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- tama: $0.045
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- tama: $0.091
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- 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, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
tama fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.045 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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