Beam Sandboxes vs Thunder Sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Thunder Sandboxesthundercompute
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Beam Sandboxes fits when
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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