Containarium Cloud vs Thunder Sandboxes
Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Containarium Cloud
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Free tier
- Max session
- Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Containarium Cloud
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Containarium Cloud: $0.02
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Containarium Cloud: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Billing
- Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- Isolation
- Containarium Cloud: Container
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Containarium Cloudcontainarium
Thunder Sandboxesthundercompute
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Containarium Cloud: $0.02
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Containarium Cloud: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Containarium Cloud: Free tier
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Containarium Cloud: Container
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Containarium Cloud
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Containarium Cloud: $0.020
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Containarium Cloud: $0.040
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Containarium Cloud: $0.080
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Containarium Cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need ISO 27001.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
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