MicroVM OpenPond Sandboxes alternatives
59 microVM sandbox providers you can use instead of OpenPond Sandboxes. Krova Cloud has the lowest hourly price, $0.012 for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB. Koyeb Sandboxes, Northflank Sandboxes, Shardflux, Thunder Sandboxes, Tensorlake Sandboxes, CoreWeave Sandboxes and Unikraft Cloud offer GPUs.
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OpenPond Sandboxes, for reference
OpenPond SandboxesIsolated cloud sandboxes for agent work, controlled from a TypeScript SDK.
IsolationFirecracker
2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.238 / hr
Free tierFree plan
Max sessionNot listed
59 microVM alternatives to OpenPond Sandboxes
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Krova Cloud
Firecracker microVMs with root access, billed by the minute.No session limitFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.012per hour
Zipbox
Long-lived Firecracker microVMs for AI agents, each with its own desktop.No session limitDesktopFirecracker$0.014per hour
$0.016per hour
Shellbox
Linux microVMs for developers and AI agents, made and controlled over SSH.No session limitFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.020per hour
$0.029per hour
$0.030per hour
Mosaic Sandbox
Linux microVM sandboxes for coding agents.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceRestore sandboxes from a saved snapshot.$0.050per hour
Northflank Sandboxes
MicroVM sandboxes for running untrusted code.GPUNo session limitCloud Hypervisor$0.067per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agents, with E2B SDK support.DesktopMicroVMLower vCPU price$0.071per hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Lightweight virtual machines that run a container image in their own kernel and pause when idle.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceCheckpoints save memory and disk$0.078per hour
Runtime
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents, billed on the CPU that code uses.Bills active CPU onlyNo session limitDesktop$0.080per hour
Prime Sandboxes
Isolated microVM sandboxes for AI agents and RL.No session limitMicroVMLower vCPU price$0.090per hour
Oblien Workspace
Hosted microVM workspaces for AI agents.Bills active CPU onlyNo session limitDesktop$0.092per hour
MIOSA
Cloud sandboxes and persistent computers that AI agents use to build and run software.DesktopFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.099per hour
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox
Isolated microVM sandboxes for AI inference, reinforcement learning and model evaluation.DesktopMicroVMLower vCPU price$0.103per hour
$0.110per hour
CreateOS Sandbox
Hosted Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.No session limitDesktopFirecracker$0.119per hour
$0.120per hourDigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agents and their code.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.126per hour
Collimate
Live-fork microVM sandboxes for RL post-training and coding agents.FirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.128per hour
Prized Sandboxes
Linux microVMs in beta that your code creates, runs commands in, pauses, forks and deletes.FirecrackerLower vCPU price1 regions$0.130per hour
EQVPS Sandboxes
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents, paid per second from a prepaid crypto balance.FirecrackerLower vCPU price$1 sandbox credit, one time$0.132per hour
Docker Sandboxes
Cloud microVM sandboxes for coding agents, run by Docker.MicroVMLower vCPU priceManaged through the API$0.140per hour
Shardflux
Serverless VMs for cloud agents that park when idle and keep their state.Bills active CPU onlyGPUDesktop$0.140per hour
Together Sandbox
Isolated runtime environments for code from AI agents.No session limitFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.149per hour
$0.150per hour
BoxLite Cloud
Hosted microVM boxes for AI agents, with an SDK.MicroVMLower vCPU priceDisabled on Cloud$0.158per hour
Fly.io Sprites
Persistent Linux computers that sleep when idle.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.165per hour
microsandbox cloud
Hosted microVM sandboxes for AI agents and untrusted code.MicroVMLower vCPU priceDisk only, from stopped persistent sandboxes$0.165per hour
Smol Machines
Hosted Linux microVMs with their own kernel, for agents and untrusted code.Bills active CPU onlyMicroVMLower vCPU price$0.165per hour
Blaxel
Sandboxes that pause when idle and resume with state.Bills on memory onlyNo session limitDesktop$0.166per hour
Declaw
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.FirecrackerLower vCPU price$100 sandbox credit, one time$0.166per hour
E2B
Open-source sandbox platform that gives AI agents isolated machines.DesktopFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
Thunder Sandboxes
Isolated, short-lived sandboxes for agents, GPU optional.GPUNo session limitFirecracker$0.166per hour
Solari
One API for cloud browsers, headless microVM sandboxes and desktop VMs for AI agents.DesktopCloud HypervisorLower vCPU price$0.171per hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.Bills active CPU onlyNo session limitFirecracker$0.173per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox
Linux sandboxes that run untrusted or generated code, driven from a Worker.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.180per hour
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
Isolated microVMs for AI agents that fork from a saved snapshot, part of SF Compute Autoresearch.Bills on memory onlyMicroVMKeeps memory and running processes. Up to 256 forks per call.$0.183per hour
LangSmith Sandboxes
Isolated sandboxes for running agent-generated code.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceFrom Docker images or running sandboxes$0.189per hour
Tensorlake Sandboxes
MicroVM sandboxes for AI agents and AI-generated code.Bills active CPU onlyGPUNo session limit$0.200per hour
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
Isolated microVM sandboxes that start on demand.MicroVMLower RAM priceMemory and disk$0.216per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter
Managed code sandboxes for AI agents on AWS.Bills active CPU onlyMicroVMLower RAM price$0.217per hourAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Hosts AI agents on AWS and runs each user session in its own microVM.Bills active CPU onlyMicroVMLower RAM price$0.217per hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Runs your AI agent code on Azure, with each session in its own microVM.MicroVMLower RAM price31 regions$0.246per hourAWS Lambda MicroVMs
Serverless microVMs on AWS that suspend when idle.FirecrackerLower RAM priceImage snapshot of an initialized app$0.252per hour
Deno Sandbox
Linux microVMs for running untrusted and generated code.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerRead-only images made from volumes$0.300per hour
Islo Machines
Persistent microVM computers for coding agents.MicroVMLower vCPU priceStarting credit, no card required$0.300per hour
$0.317per hour
$0.341per hour
Vercel Sandbox
Isolated Linux microVMs for running untrusted code.Bills active CPU onlyFirecrackerLower RAM price$0.341per hour
Depot Sandboxes
Linux microVMs for code, tests and agents, made and run from a Node.js SDK.MicroVMSaves files in the home directory and /workspace, not memory or processes. Up to 25 GiB7-day free trial, no credit card$0.360per hour
Maritime
Hosting for persistent AI agents and Linux desktops, each in its own micro-VM.DesktopFirecrackerNot listedper hour
Nebius Sandboxes
Sandboxes for AI agents that branch from any checkpoint.MicroVMSaves filesystem state as an image, not running processes.SOC 2 Type IINot listedper hour
RemoteHost
Persistent, hardware-isolated microVMs for coding agents.Firecracker3 regions7-day free trialNot listedper hour
Not listedper hour
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OpenPond Sandboxes first, then the 59 alternatives
Provider
Isolation
vCPU / hr
GiB / hr
Free tier
Max session
GPU
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.072
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.001
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.007
- Free tier
- $25 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.008
- Free tier
- 7-day trial
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.010
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.014
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.015
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.025
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Cloud Hypervisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.017
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.018
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.022
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.025
- Free tier
- 100 free hours
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.020
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.030
- Free tier
- Free tier, no credit card
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $1 / month
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.035
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.025
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.036
- Free tier
- 500 free credits
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.060
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.044
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- Free demo
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- $30 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- $1 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.070
- Free tier
- $25 credit, one time
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- 30 days of Pro
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.045
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.047
- Free tier
- $30 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.039
- Free tier
- $30 trial credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Included
- Free tier
- Credit of up to $200
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $200 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Free during public preview
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $5 to start, plus $95 when you add billing
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.051
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Cloud Hypervisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.053
- Free tier
- $3 / mo credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.054
- Free tier
- $5.40 / month
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.072
- Free tier
- None
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Included
- Free tier
- None
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.058
- Free tier
- 8 LSU a month
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.070
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.086
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.090
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.090
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.099
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.100
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.100
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.070
- Free tier
- Credits to start
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.108
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.128
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.128
- Free tier
- 5 CPU-hrs / mo
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.180
- Free tier
- 7-day trial
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- 3 agents, forever
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- 7-day trial
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Hobby plan, free forever
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