Daytona vs Thunder Sandboxes
Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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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.
Daytona
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Daytona: Per second
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Daytona: No limit
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Daytona: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Daytona:
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Daytona:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Daytona:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Daytona: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Daytona: Enterprise plan
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Daytona
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Daytona: $0.083
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Daytona: $0.166
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Daytona: $0.331
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Daytona fits when
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
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