Dedalus Machines vs Thunder Sandboxes

Dedalus Machines costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Dedalus Machines runs full VMs. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Dedalus Machines

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$20 one-time sign-up credit
Max session
Not listed

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.

Dedalus Machines
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Isolation
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go
Thunder Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Dedalus Machines: Per second
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Dedalus Machines: After 5 minutes
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Dedalus Machines:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Dedalus Machines: Enterprise plan
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Dedalus Machines
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Dedalus Machines: $0.075
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Dedalus Machines: $0.149
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Dedalus Machines: $0.298
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Dedalus Machines fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.

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