DigitalOcean MicroVMs vs Thunder Sandboxes
DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP
Trust
- License
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.078 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.
- You use MCP.
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