PandaStack Sandbox vs Thunder Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- 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.
PandaStack Sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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