Cloudflare Sandbox vs Thunder Sandboxes

Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
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.

Cloudflare Sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Thunder Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Cloudflare Sandbox:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Cloudflare Sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Cloudflare Sandbox fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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