PandaStack Sandbox vs Zipbox
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs 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
Zipbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
11 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
PandaStack Sandbox
Zipbox
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Zipbox: 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
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Zipbox: No
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Zipboxzipbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Zipbox: 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
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Zipbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Zipbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Zipbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- Zipbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- Zipbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Zipbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- Zipbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- Zipbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- Zipbox: $0.027
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Zipbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use Claude Code or the Claude Agent SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want the larger free credit: $25 against $5.40.
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