Runloop vs Thunder Sandboxes
Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Runloop runs microVMs. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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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.
Runloop
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Runloop: $0.108
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Isolation
- Runloop: MicroVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Runloop: $0.108
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Runloop: Per second
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Runloop: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Runloop: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Runloop: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Runloop: MicroVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Runloop: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Runloop:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Runloop:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Runloop: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Runloop
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Runloop: $0.158
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Runloop: $0.317
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runloop: $0.634
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Runloop fits when
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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