boxes.dev vs Thunder Sandboxes

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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boxes.dev

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Max session
Not listed

Thunder Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

boxes.dev
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes:
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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