Oblien Workspace vs Thunder Sandboxes

Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
Not listed

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.

Oblien Workspace
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Billing
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
GPU
Oblien Workspace: No
Thunder Sandboxes:
SDKs
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Thunder Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Oblien Workspace: No
Thunder Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Oblien Workspace:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Oblien Workspace:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Oblien Workspace: MCP
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Oblien Workspace
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Oblien Workspace: $0.184
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.092 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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