Prized Sandboxes vs Thunder Sandboxes

Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Prized Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$30 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

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.

Prized Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
GPU
Prized Sandboxes: No
Thunder Sandboxes:

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: MCP

Trust

License
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Prized Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Prized Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.130 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You use MCP.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.

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