PandaStack Sandbox vs xShellz Agent Shell
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor and has no session limit.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
xShellz Agent Shell
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
xShellz Agent Shell
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- xShellz Agent Shell: Included
- 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
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
xShellz Agent Shellxshellz
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- xShellz Agent Shell: Included
- 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
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- xShellz Agent Shell:
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
xShellz Agent Shell
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
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 or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You need snapshots.
xShellz Agent Shell fits when
- You use Claude Code.
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