RemoteHost vs Thunder Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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RemoteHost
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial
- Max session
- 72 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.
RemoteHost
Thunder Sandboxes
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- RemoteHost: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- RemoteHost: Free
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- SDKs
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Thunder Sandboxesthundercompute
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- RemoteHost: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- RemoteHost: Free
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- RemoteHost:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- RemoteHost:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- RemoteHost: MCP, Claude Code
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
RemoteHost
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
RemoteHost fits when
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
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