Modal vs Thunder Sandboxes
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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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.
Modal
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Modal:
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Modal fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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