Declaw vs Thunder Sandboxes

Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Declaw

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
72 hours

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.

Declaw
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Thunder Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Declaw: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Declaw: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Declaw: Deploy in your VPC. Book a call.
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Declaw
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Declaw: $0.083
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Declaw: $0.166
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Declaw: $0.331
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Declaw fits when

  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents 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 need GPUs.

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