PandaStack Sandbox vs Vercel Sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Vercel Sandbox costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Vercel Sandbox runs Firecracker 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
Vercel Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 5 CPU-hours every month
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
Vercel Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Vercel Sandbox: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
Vercel Sandboxvercel
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Vercel Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Vercel Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Vercel Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Vercel Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.170
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.341
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.682
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 an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.173 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Vercel Sandbox fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
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