BoxLite Cloud vs Thunder Sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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BoxLite Cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- 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.
BoxLite Cloud
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Isolation
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Thunder Sandboxesthundercompute
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- BoxLite Cloud: Per second
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- BoxLite Cloud: No
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- BoxLite Cloud:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxLite Cloud
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxLite Cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
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