boat vs Thunder Sandboxes
boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boat
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- boat: $0.009
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boat: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- boat: Free
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- boat: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- Isolation
- boat: Full VM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boat: No
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- SDKs
- boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boat: $0.009
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boat: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- boat: Free
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- boat: Free trial with 25 hours
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- boat: $20 / month
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- boat: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- boat: No limit
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- boat: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boat: Up to 2,000
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- boat: Full VM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boat: No
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- boat:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- boat:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- boat: MCP
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- boat: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- boat: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boat
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boat: $0.009
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boat: $0.018
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boat: $0.036
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boat fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
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