CreateOS Sandbox vs Thunder Sandboxes

CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

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.

CreateOS Sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
GPU
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Thunder Sandboxes:
SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Thunder Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Thunder Sandboxes:
Snapshots
CreateOS Sandbox:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
CreateOS Sandbox:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CreateOS Sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.

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