Runtime vs Thunder Sandboxes
Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Runtime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Max session
- No limit
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Runtime
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Runtime: $0.025
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- GPU
- Runtime: No
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- SDKs
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Runtime: $0.025
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Runtime: No limit
- Thunder Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Runtime: Up to 200
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Runtime: No
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Runtime:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Runtime:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Runtime: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Runtime: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Runtime
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Runtime: $0.040
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Runtime: $0.080
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runtime: $0.160
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Runtime fits when
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or LangChain.
- You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.
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