inis.run vs Thunder Sandboxes

Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. inis.run runs full VMs and has no session limit. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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inis.run

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
€1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Max session
No limit

Thunder Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

inis.run
Thunder Sandboxes
RAM, per GiB-hour
inis.run: Included
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
inis.run: Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Billing
inis.run: Bundled machine time
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Isolation
inis.run: Full VM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
inis.run: No
Thunder Sandboxes:
SDKs
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Thunder Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
inis.run: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
inis.run: Included
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
inis.run: Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
inis.run: Pay as you go
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
inis.run: Bundled machine time
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
inis.run: No limit
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
inis.run: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
inis.run: Up to 10
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
inis.run: Full VM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
inis.run: No
Thunder Sandboxes:
Snapshots
inis.run:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
inis.run:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
inis.run: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
inis.run: In your cloud account, by quote
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

inis.run
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

inis.run fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use the Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

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

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