Brimble Sandboxes vs Thunder Sandboxes

Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

Thunder Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Brimble Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Thunder Sandboxes: No limit
Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Thunder Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Thunder Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Brimble Sandboxes:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Brimble Sandboxes:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

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

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • A session must run longer than 6 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.

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