PandaStack Sandbox vs Tenki Sandbox

PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Tenki Sandbox costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Tenki Sandbox runs full VMs.

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PandaStack Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$5.40 usage credit every month
Max session
No limit

Tenki Sandbox

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

PandaStack Sandbox
Tenki Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
Storage
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
Billing
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Tenki Sandbox: Per second
Largest sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100
Isolation
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Tenki Sandbox: Full VM
SDKs
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Tenki Sandbox: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
Billing
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Tenki Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Tenki Sandbox: Full VM
GPU
PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
PandaStack Sandbox:
Tenki Sandbox:
Pause and resume
PandaStack Sandbox:
Tenki Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Tenki Sandbox: MCP

Trust

License
PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

PandaStack Sandbox
Tenki Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
Tenki Sandbox: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
Tenki Sandbox: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
Tenki Sandbox: $0.331

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Which 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 or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Tenki Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $5.40.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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