Prime Sandboxes vs Thunder Sandboxes

Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

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.

Prime Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Isolation
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Prime Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.

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