BoxCompute vs Thunder Sandboxes
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- 42 hours
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
BoxComputeboxcompute
Thunder Sandboxesthundercompute
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxCompute fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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