boxd vs Thunder Sandboxes

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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boxd

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 credit with a payment method
Max session
Not listed

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.

boxd
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Thunder Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
boxd: Per second
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes:
Snapshots
boxd:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
boxd:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.

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