Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Thunder Sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- Max session
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
- Thunder Sandboxes: No limit
- Isolation
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
- Thunder Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You need pause and resume.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.217 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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