Celesto Cloud vs Thunder Sandboxes
Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Celesto Cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
- Max session
- Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Celesto Cloud
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Celesto Cloud: $0.015
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Celesto Cloud: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Celesto Cloud: Free
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- Isolation
- Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Celesto Cloudcelesto
Thunder Sandboxesthundercompute
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Celesto Cloud: $0.015
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Celesto Cloud: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Celesto Cloud: Free
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Celesto Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Celesto Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Celesto Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Celesto Cloud:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Celesto Cloud:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Celesto Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Celesto Cloud
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Celesto Cloud: $0.015
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Celesto Cloud: $0.030
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Celesto Cloud: $0.060
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Celesto Cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
- You use MCP, the OpenAI Agents SDK or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
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