CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Thunder Sandboxes

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

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.

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Thunder Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Thunder Sandboxes:
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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