PandaStack Sandbox vs Upstash Box
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Upstash Box runs containers.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
Upstash Box
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
Upstash Box
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Upstash Box: Included
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Upstash Box: Pay as you go
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Upstash Box: Container
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
Upstash Boxupstash
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Upstash Box: Included
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Upstash Box: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Upstash Box: Container
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Upstash Box:
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Upstash Box:
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- Upstash Box: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Upstash Box
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- Upstash Box: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- Upstash Box: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- Upstash Box: $0.400
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 the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.173 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Upstash Box fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
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