Lizard Sandboxes vs Thunder Sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Lizard Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Max session
- No limit
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.
Lizard Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- SDKs
- Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Lizard Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Lizard Sandboxes fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.016 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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