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The cloud for AI agents.

Scanned 15 Oct 2026 · Schema v5 · features v21

From
$20/mo

Usage-based with monthly credit; paid base converts 1:1 to credit.

Free tier
Yes

No card required.

Isolation
Firecracker microVM

shares only the hypervisor

Regions
—

Privacy policy and repository describe multiple regions but no verified selectable hosted region names or locations were found. Self-host Terraform examples are not a hosted region catalog.

Capabilities
31 / 61

5 partial · 25 fail · 0 not assessed

Agent readiness
9/11 · 10/11

read · drive, pre-login surface

Advertised for

Untrusted code · Agent sandboxes · Code interpreter · Browser automation · Git hosted apps · Managed postgres · Serverless functions · Cron

Built for

Developers, then technical

  • · CLI/Python/TypeScript code hero; Firecracker, snapshot and vCPU terminology; deep API and self-host docs.

01 Pricing Usage-based with monthly credit; paid base converts 1:1 to credit.

Tier EntryFreeProTeamTopEnterprise
Price $0/month; $5.40 usage credit, paused when exhausted$20/month + usage above credit$99/month + usage above creditCustom annual contract
Includes $5.40 monthly usage credit. 5 concurrent; 4GiB/sandbox; 2 sustained cores; 60 creates/hour; 1h lifetime, apps/DB exempt.$20.00 monthly usage credit. 50 concurrent; 16GiB/sandbox; 600 creates/hour; 7-day idle TTL; 10 volumes each up to 10GiB.$99.00 monthly usage credit. 500 concurrent; 64GiB/sandbox; 6000 creates/hour; 30-day idle TTL; unlimited seats; 50 volumes each up to 50GiB.BYO-VPC / dedicated tenancy, custom quotas, SAML/SCIM/OIDC, audit streaming and advertised 99.95% SLA.
Seats15——
Storage1 GB100 GB2500 GB—
Transfer overage $0/GB$0/GB$0/GB—
Storage overage $0.15/GB$0.15/GB$0.15/GB—
vCPU hours overage $0.054/h$0.054/h$0.054/h—
Memory gb hours overage $0.0162/h$0.0162/h$0.0162/h—

Active vCPU-seconds, resident working-set GiB-seconds, provisioned GiB-month storage beyond quota.·Card required: No·pandastack.ai

02 Website design Desktop public website · assessed 15 Oct 2026

Complete assessment.

Desktop public landing, pricing and documentation entrance share pale backgrounds, dark oversized headings, generous whitespace, rounded panels and purple accents. Landing and docs add faint technical grids and gradient-highlighted headline words; pricing uses a centered introduction and four aligned plan cards. Coverage is limited to these public entry viewports, not authenticated product UI or documentation article layouts.

  • Corporate
  • Technical illustration
  • Landing page: captured
  • Pricing: captured
  • Docs: captured

03 Runtime Each fact carries its source; dots show confidence. Open a row for the evidence.

Isolation & lifecycle

Isolation primitive
Firecracker microVMshares only the hypervisor
Persistence
Ephemeral sandbox rootfs; durable named ext4 volumes and managed PostgreSQL; hibernation retains VM state.
Snapshots / forks
Snapshot/restore, disk-only fork(), live-state fork_tree, pause/resume and hibernate/wake.

Resources & limits

Storage
Host-local named ext4 volumes, snapshots and managed PostgreSQL 16. Free 1GiB, Pro 100GiB, Team 2500GiB included volume quotas.
Limits & quotas
Free: 5 concurrent sandboxes, 4GiB per sandbox, 60 creates/hour, 1-hour sandbox lifetime, 1GiB volume quota. Pro: 50 concurrent, 16GiB per sandbox, 600 creates/hour, 7-day idle TTL, 100GiB total volume quota (10 × 10GiB). Team: 500 concurrent, 64GiB per sandbox, 6000 creates/hour, 30-day idle TTL, 2500GiB total volume quota (50 × 50GiB). Enterprise: custom quotas. Complete machine-readable catalog retained in artifacts/live-pricing.json.
GPU
No GPU-backed offering found in public templates, pricing or API docs.

Access

Deploy interface
apisdkcligit-pushdockerfile
SDK languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScript

Network & secrets

Egress controls
Hosted per-sandbox egress otherwise open; self-host operator can configure blocked TCP ports via PANDASTACK_BLOCKED_EGRESS_PORTS.
Secrets
App environment secrets encrypted AES-256-GCM, masked in API reads and logs, injected at build/run time.
Bring your own cloud
Enterprise BYO-VPC / dedicated single-tenant; self-host core independently available.

Placement & use

Jurisdiction
Terms governed by Delaware, USA; infrastructure may process data internationally, including the United States. No concrete region catalog found.
Advertised workloads
Untrusted codeAgent sandboxesCode interpreterBrowser automationGit hosted appsManaged postgresServerless functionsCron

04 Capabilities 31 pass · 5 partial · 25 fail · 61 of 61 assessed

  • Supported
  • Partially supported
  • Not supported
  • Not assessed

Compute & storage 5/11

Persistent diskStorage that survives restart/stop (not ephemeral-only).
Supported
Object storageManaged S3-compatible / blob object store the platform PROVIDES to a user's workloads (buckets, presigned URLs). DISTINCT from persistent-disk (block/volume attached to an instance) and from a self-host dependency (source.self_host.deps[]=["object-storage"] is an infra dep to RUN an OSS tool — the opposite direction). SCOPE varies and matters: native first-class (Railway Buckets, Cloudflare R2) vs a sibling SKU / extension (Fly Tigris, Bunny Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces) — record which in the evidence quote / note. Admitted v15.
Not supported
Snapshots / forkingSnapshot or copy-on-write fork of a running instance (filesystem-only counts). Whether the snapshot also restores memory + running processes is recorded separately by memory-snapshot (v19).
Supported
Live-state (memory) snapshotsA snapshot / checkpoint / pause captures a running instance's MEMORY and PROCESS state and restores it, so running processes continue where they left off instead of a freshly booted instance with the same files. Counts whether user-triggered (snapshot, checkpoint, pause-to-storage) or used to restore pre-initialised state (memory snapshots for fast cold starts). Distinct from snapshots-forks (any snapshot or fork, including filesystem-only; a product passing that key may still fail this one) and from scale-to-zero (an idle-cost property; suspension may or may not keep memory). Actor multiplexing (see scale-to-zero) records its live-state half here — only when the suspended actor's MEMORY/process state is what comes back, not a freshly booted worker with the actor's files.
Supported
Scale to zeroIdle instances suspend at no / negligible cost. ACTOR MULTIPLEXING (many suspended stateful actors sharing a small pool of pre-warmed workers, woken on request — Agent Substrate, AX, kagent; Rivet's hibernating actors) has NO key of its own (proposal REJECTED v20) — score the idle-cost half HERE and the live-state half under memory-snapshot; the oversubscription ratio / density is a performance characteristic the registry does not key.
Supported
GPU computeGPU-backed instances available.
Not supported
Multi-regionCompute placeable in more than one geographic region.
Partially supported
Sandbox templates / custom imagesBuild reusable sandbox/VM images from an OCI image or Dockerfile (a base you fork instances from).
Supported
Cloud-init / ignition configCustomise a VM / microVM / instance at boot via cloud-init (or ignition) user-data — the same boot-metadata interface as AWS/Azure/GCP. Inject packages, users, SSH keys, files, and run-commands declaratively at launch. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a PREBUILT image you fork instances from) — this is PER-LAUNCH declarative customisation, not a baked image.
Not supported
Desktop / computer-use sandboxA virtual desktop (GUI) for LLM computer-use — browser + desktop automation, often via noVNC/VNC.
Not supported
Selectable isolation runtimeThe user chooses the isolation runtime per workload / environment / sandbox from more than one option (e.g. microVM vs gVisor vs plain container, native namespaces vs gVisor, gVisor vs VM). Records the CHOICE; the isolation_primitive facet still records the best-evidenced primary. A platform that switches runtime automatically without a user choice (e.g. gVisor forced for GPU) does not pass on that alone.
Not supported

Networking & delivery 4/9

Automatic HTTPSTLS endpoints provisioned automatically per workload.
Supported
Built-in reverse proxyPlatform routes external traffic to workload services.
Supported
Custom domainsBring-your-own domain via CNAME/DNS.
Supported
Public preview URLsShareable per-deploy / per-branch URLs.
Supported
Direct public IPv6Per-instance stable public IPv6 for raw TCP/UDP (beyond a managed HTTPS proxy) — e.g. mosh / raw sockets.
Not supported
Egress controlsConfigurable OUTBOUND network policy — egress firewall / allowlist / egress proxy on traffic LEAVING a workload. Scoped to OUTBOUND only (v15): private-network REACHABILITY between a user's own services is private-networking, not this. Static-egress-IP belongs here (an outbound concept).
Partially supported
Private networkingA platform-internal private network between a user's OWN services — service-to-service connectivity, VPC, service mesh, and/or service discovery, not exposed to the public internet. DISTINCT from egress-controls (OUTBOUND firewall/allowlist), reverse-proxy (PUBLIC inbound ingress), and direct-ipv6 (per-instance PUBLIC addressing). Admitted v15.
Not supported
Email send / receiveSend and/or receive email from the workload.
Not supported
Edge KV storeA globally-replicated key-value store read from WITHIN an edge runtime at the PoP (low-latency, eventually-consistent) — Cloudflare Workers KV, Deno KV, Fastly KV Store, Akamai EdgeKV, Vercel Edge Config. Distinct from first-party-db (a managed DATABASE service you provision and connect to) and from http-query-api (HTTP access to an external store) — edge-kv is colocated with the edge compute and read at the edge.
Not supported

Developer access 8/10

Public APIDocumented programmatic API.
Supported
OpenAPI specMachine-readable OpenAPI / Swagger spec published.
Supported
CLIOfficial command-line tool.
Supported
SDKOfficial client library/libraries.
Supported
SSH accessDirect SSH into workloads.
Supported
Filesystem APIRemote file operations over the API (list/read/write/watch/copy/upload) without SSH.
Supported
Git deployDeploy from a Git repo / push-to-deploy.
Supported
Private container registryHosted private image registry.
Partially supported
E2B-compatible APIDrop-in compatibility with the E2B sandbox API/SDKs — existing E2B client code runs against this product by changing the endpoint/domain + key, with no business-code changes. E2B itself passes as the reference implementation. Distinct from public-api / sdk (the product has its own API — this key says it also speaks another vendor's) and from self-host-oss (a self-hosted E2B-compatible server is scored on both).
Not supported
HTTP data APIQuery / read / write the stored DATA over plain HTTP/REST (or GraphQL) WITHOUT the native protocol driver (Postgres wire / Redis RESP) — agent- and edge-friendly data access via fetch(). The DATA plane; distinct from public-api (a control-plane / management API). Auto-generated-from-schema REST/GraphQL (PostgREST, pg_graphql) is a flavour of this.
Supported

AI & agents 4/12

Built-in coding agentShips a first-party AI coding agent in the product.
Not supported
Agent skillsInstallable / declarable agent skills or tools.
Not supported
AI app builderPrompt-to-app / vibe-coding generation surface.
Not supported
MCP serverExposes a Model Context Protocol server for agents.
Supported
MCP clientActs as an MCP client / consumes MCP tools.
Not supported
MCP-server hostingRun/host MCP servers as a workload on the platform (distinct from exposing a first-party MCP control server — that is mcp-server).
Supported
LLM gatewayRoutes LLM API calls through the platform (multi-provider).
Not supported
BYOK for LLMsBring-your-own LLM provider keys.
Supported
Model inference API (first-party)A FIRST-PARTY hosted LLM/model inference API — the provider serves its OWN catalogue of (usually open-weight) models behind a (typically OpenAI-compatible) endpoint, billed per token. Distinct from llm-gateway (a multi-PROVIDER proxy/router for YOUR calls to external providers like OpenAI/Anthropic) and from byok-llm (bring your own provider keys) — here the platform IS the inference provider, serving its own models.
Not supported
Autonomous QA agentA first-party AUTONOMOUS AI agent that QA-TESTS a running app / implementation — exercising it like a real user (clicking through flows, checking behaviour) and reporting bugs/defects (often back to a coding agent, or before a human review). Distinct from built-in-agent (a code-AUTHORING agent — this one VERIFIES the result, it does not write the feature; a product can ship both), from ai-guided-code-review (organises a diff for a HUMAN to review — not an autonomous tester), and from observability (runtime metrics/logs, not active testing).
Not supported
Credential-injection proxyThe platform holds real secrets OUTSIDE the workload and injects them on the wire (an egress / broker proxy swaps a placeholder or phantom token for the real credential on matching outbound requests), so code running in the sandbox — e.g. an untrusted agent — never sees or can exfiltrate the real key. Distinct from secrets-management (storage + injection INTO the workload as env vars/files — the workload holds the secret) and from egress-controls (outbound allow/deny POLICY; a product can have an allowlist without injecting credentials, and vice versa).
Not supported
Preinstalled coding agentThe platform installs and launches a THIRD-PARTY coding agent (a harnesses.yml entry — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi ...) inside a workspace/sandbox it provisions, with the agent's auth wired in (your own account or API key), so you start an agent session rather than an empty box. Distinct from built-in-agent (a FIRST-PARTY agent the vendor ships) and from harnesses[] (which records that a harness CAN target the product, not that the product runs it for you).
Supported

Data 3/4

First-party databasePlatform-provided managed database.
Supported
Database branchingCopy-on-write branch of a DATABASE (schema + data) as a dev-lifecycle primitive — branch your data like code, usually instant via a metadata operation. Distinct from snapshots-forks (forks a running compute INSTANCE / VM state) and from preview-environments (a full per-PR environment that may USE a DB branch). For a data product a CoW branch maps HERE, not to snapshots-forks.
Supported
Vector searchFirst-class storage, indexing, and similarity search of vector embeddings — a native vector type/index or a managed vector DB. The data-layer primitive for RAG / semantic retrieval.
Supported
Ephemeral instant DB (no-signup)Provision a working, usable instance via a single command / HTTP call with NO account, signup, or card — typically time-boxed (expires unless claimed). A zero-onboarding path an agent can hit directly.
Not supported

Platform & operations 3/6

Scheduled tasksCron / scheduled job primitive.
Supported
Durable workflowsDurable execution / long-running workflow primitive.
Not supported
Preview environmentsA full EPHEMERAL environment spun up per PR / branch — compute + addons + (often) a DB branch — torn down on merge. More than preview-urls (which is just a shareable URL for one deploy).
Supported
Built-in observabilityFirst-party metrics / logs / tracing / APM / profiling included in the platform (no third-party stack required to see what a workload is doing).
Supported
Managed CI/CD runnersPlatform-hosted, drop-in CI/CD runner VMs (GitHub Actions / GitLab), typically faster and cheaper than the CI vendor's own hosted runners, billed per runner-minute; isolated + ephemeral per job. Distinct from git-deploy (push-to-deploy of an APP) and scheduled-tasks (cron) — this is managed CI COMPUTE you point your existing pipelines at.
Not supported
Project template marketplaceA marketplace / gallery of prebuilt PROJECT STARTER templates (apps or websites) a user clones or launches a new project from and then customises — the "start from a template" surface of a builder / PaaS. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a COMPUTE base IMAGE you fork runtime INSTANCES from — Dockerfile / OCI), from app-builder (the prompt-to-app GENERATION surface — a product can have both), and from one-click OSS-app catalogues / helm-addon-marketplace (deploy a FINISHED app as-is, not a starter you build on).
Not supported

Organisation & security 4/9

Built-in authPlatform-provided authentication / IAM for workloads.
Not supported
SSO / SAMLEnterprise single sign-on.
Partially supported
Secrets managementFirst-class secrets storage / injection.
Supported
TeamsMulti-user team accounts.
Supported
SharingShare a running workload/resource via link (optionally gated).
Supported
BYOCRuns inside the customer's own cloud account.
Partially supported
Deploy into customers' VPCsA SaaS vendor uses the platform to deploy and operate ITS software inside ITS CUSTOMERS' cloud accounts / VPCs (nested or "customer BYOC"), managed from the vendor's control plane. Distinct from byoc (your own workloads in your own cloud account).
Not supported
Workload identityThe platform gives each workload its own verifiable identity (OIDC token, SPIFFE SVID, cloud IAM federation) that it exchanges for short-lived credentials, so no long-lived static secret is stored or injected. Distinct from secrets-management (stores / injects static secrets) and credential-injection-proxy (swaps real secrets in on the wire).
Not supported
Self-host / OSS coreOpen-source core that can be self-hosted.
Supported

05 Agent readiness Pre-login surface · counts, not a grade

Can an agent read it?

parse-ability · docs, metadata, machine-readable surfaces

9/11

7 full · 2 partial · 82% of applicable checks

  • llms.txt
    Supported
  • llms-full.txt
    Not supported
  • robots.txt AI policy
    Partially supported
  • JSON-LD
    Supported
  • Sitemap
    Supported
  • Meta tags
    Supported
  • Markdown negotiation
    Not supported
  • Content efficiency
    Supported
  • Docs discoverable
    Supported
  • Machine-readable pricing
    Supported
  • No anti-bot wall
    Partially supported

Can an agent drive it?

act-ability · APIs, SDKs, MCP, credentials, webhooks

10/11

9 full · 1 partial · 91% of applicable checks

  • Public API
    Supported
  • OpenAPI spec
    Supported
  • MCP server
    Supported
  • SDK packages
    Supported
  • Auth documented
    Supported
  • Self-serve credentials
    Partially supported
  • Webhooks
    Supported
  • CLI tool
    Supported
  • Error model
    Supported
  • Rate limits documented
    Supported
  • Agent config files
    Not supported

06 Coding harnesses Which agents and IDEs are documented to run here

Advertised integrations 7

  • Claude Code Anthropic
    Supported

    Advertised agent-template installation and BYOK, not executed verification.

  • Codex CLI OpenAI
    Supported

    Advertised agent-template installation and BYOK, not executed verification.

  • OpenCode opencode
    Supported

    Advertised agent-template installation and BYOK, not executed verification.

  • Amp Sourcegraph
    Supported

    Advertised agent-template installation and BYOK, not executed verification.

  • Gemini CLI Google
    Supported

    Advertised agent-template installation and BYOK, not executed verification.

  • GitHub Copilot GitHub
    Supported

    Advertised agent-template installation and BYOK, not executed verification.

  • Cursor Anysphere
    Supported

    MCP client integration, not preinstalled IDE.

Plausible compatibility 10

Derived, not stored: the product passes SSH access, so any CLI coding agent is installable inside it. This is plausible compatibility, not a supported integration.

  • Aider
  • Antigravity
  • Devin
  • Droid
  • Goose
  • Hermes Agent
  • Kilo Code
  • Kiro CLI
  • Pi
  • Qwen Code

07 Compliance & regions Standards held, with ordinal rigor; never a score

Certifications held 3

  • PCI DSS
    self-attestedhosted
  • CCPA
    self-attestedhosted
  • GDPR
    self-attestedhosted

Regions —

Regions are not disclosed on the public surface.

Privacy policy and repository describe multiple regions but no verified selectable hosted region names or locations were found. Self-host Terraform examples are not a hosted region catalog.

08 Open source Apache-2.0 · fetched by machine, not quoted from marketing

Licence & repository

Licence
Apache-2.0OSI
Primary language
Go
Stars
33
Forks
5
Created
14 Jun 2026
Archived
No

Activity

Last commit
28 Sep 2026
Latest release
—
Issues open / closed
0 / 0

The mandatory GitHub GraphQL releases query returned no releases; CHANGELOG.md has an Unreleased section. No release cadence can be established.

Fetched via gh on 15 Oct 2026.

Self-hosting

Methods
source-buildterraformansible
You operate
postgresclickhouseobject-storage

Free Apache-2.0 core plus operator infrastructure costs. Operators supply KVM-capable Linux hosts (or Lima on Apple Silicon for development), identity provider/JWKS, object storage, upgrades and backups. Cloud-only features are database branching, point-in-time restore with a backup browser/retention policies, and connection hardening (IP allow lists, rate limits, pooled URLs). Managed databases are beta; read replicas, storage autoscaling and cross-host volume durability are not shipped. The infrastructure guide states object-storage-dependent agent features are GCS-only with no S3 backend yet: on AWS cross-host replication, WAL archive/failover, UFFD/NBD streaming and seed sync stay disabled, and PGDATA remains host-pinned. This contradicts the broader README claim of GCS or S3-compatible storage. Terraform/bootstrap examples require review and adaptation; Ansible updates an existing fleet rather than provisioning the complete platform. Auth/access-control is intentionally minimal. SDKs and CLI are separately published, not in this repository.

Documentation signals 8/8

  • SupportedQuickstart
  • SupportedAPI reference
  • SupportedSelf-host guide
  • SupportedChangelog
  • SupportedOpenAPI
  • Supportedllms.txt
  • SupportedExamples
  • SupportedArchitecture doc

09 Company & presence Facts only, not scored

Company

Headquarters
Not disclosed
Founded
13 May 2025
Team size
Not disclosed
Hiring
No careers board or hiring status found in checked about/footer sources.

Activity

Last release
2026-05-31 — v0.5.0 pandastack.ai
Last blog post
— pandastack.ai

Presence 5

Links found on the public surface scanned; not an exhaustive search.

10 Sources & method How this entry was produced

Public surface only

Everything here was read from pandastack.ai's unauthenticated pages, docs, pricing and repository on 15 Oct 2026. Nothing behind a login was used.

Statuses, not scores

Capabilities are pass, partial or fail against a written rubric (features v21). “Not assessed” means the scan predates the key.

Confidence is separate

Each fact carries its own confidence. Low-confidence facts are shown, never hidden, so you can weigh them.

Schema
scan v5
Features registry
v21
Keys tracked today
61
Assessed on this entry
61
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