MIOSA vs Thunder Sandboxes

MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time
Max session
24 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.

MIOSA
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Thunder Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
MIOSA: Per second
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
MIOSA: 24 hours
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
MIOSA: MCP
Thunder Sandboxes: MCP

Trust

License
MIOSA: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

MIOSA fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.

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