OpenPond Sandboxes vs Thunder Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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OpenPond Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Max session
- Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
OpenPond Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Thunder Sandboxesthundercompute
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
OpenPond Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.
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